Yasodharā ... the essense of compassion
This outfit inspired by Yasodharā
who was the wife of Siddartha (who left the day their son was born to became the Buddha ... hmmmmm)
Myth has it that she also followed an ascetic path (morphed now into an aesthetic path!) while raising their son.
After their son grew up and became a Monk, Yasodara then left, to follow Buddha's path, and later became Quan Yin, having different spellings in different countries and some believe was also White Tara (they traveled around!).
Being a woman and not allowed to teach, she taught the untouchable women. They at first didn't accept her, seeing her as untouchable, for reaching out to them and later accepted her worth (and their own).
To me Patricia Ellsberg is the essence of Yasodhara and Judith, the filmaker,
the channel to bring this to a larger audience.
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in the Temple of Venus