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Reading the past lives. A tale a week. The Buddha’s biography across cosmic time.

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Priya RamanathanVerified

@priya-ramanathan · 09.05.2026

Reflection

Why the Therigatha still cuts

I have been reading the Therigatha for nine years. What strikes me most is not the awakenings — though they are extraordinary — but the precision of the suffering before them. Ambapali on her body. Patacara on her children. These are not idealized voices. They are real women who walked through the worst, and arrived at peace. The path holds.