"YASHODHARA " is neither legend nor myth, neither history nor mythology. Not even a fable. It is pure fiction born from a woman's heart.

The scant mention of Yashodhara in the books that tell the story of Buddha does not do justice to one who was his wife for many years. It is hard to believe that the Compassionate One who set out to redeem mankind from pain and suffering could be the cause of the same to his own loving wife and a little son still in the cradle. We wonder, and become rather uncomfortable to think of a husband forsaking a loving and devoted wife and, what she went through in the years of suspense and aloneness, while her husband was in search of answers to the complexities of human suffering. We can hardly imagine the trauma of her life in the emotional void she had been...