📚 node [[ananda]]
  • a [[person]].
    • [[friend]].
    • Attendant of the [[Buddha]] and third "patriarch" of Buddhism in a way (although Gautama probably wouldn't have used that word) in this [[kalpa]] IIUC, as he succeeded [[Kassapa]] who took the position of leader of the Sangha after Gautama passed into [[parinibbana]].
    • He served the Buddha for [[25]] years and lived on for another [[20]] or so after Gautama's death.
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