Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/17/2019

A goddess identified as Kokanada, possibly the sister of the previous, sums up the teaching in a pithy verse.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Vesālī, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof. Then, late at night, the beautiful Kokanadā the Younger, Pajjunna’s daughter, lighting up the entire Great Wood, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and recited these verses in the Buddha’s presence: “Kokanadā, Pajjunna’s daughter, came here, beautiful as a flash of lightning. [Read More]