Prajnatara

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And she had her hands full, so she asked Reverend Kotan, who was quite a scholar, and he was her research assistant at the time, and he found... women in our ancestral line.

And one of them was in the ancestral line, it's Hanya Tara, but the Sanskrit was Prajna Tara.

You know, we come back to Prajna Paramita.

There's an interesting link there.

So Prajna Tara was a quite established female monk.

So we know that there were women monks at that point.

But then, but There are no records, okay? One thing is there's not a lot of records, period, because Indian civilization, they didn't tend to keep good historical records, okay? It's just, it's not a judgment.