Devadatta a mountain. As this also failed he decided to have the elephant Nāḷāgiri intoxicated and let him loose on the Buddha while he was on almsround. However, the power of the Buddha’s loving-kindness overcame the elephant. Devadatta then decided to create a schism in the order, and collected a few monk friends and demanded that the Buddha accede to the following rules for the monks: they should dwell all their lives in the forest, live entirely on alms obtained by begging, wear only robes made of discarded rags, dwell at the foot of a tree and abstain completely from fish
Nancy Wilson (religious leader) College, Claremont School of Theology, and the University of Southern California. Wilson is the author of: Nancy Wilson (religious leader) Nancy L. Wilson (born 1950) is an American cleric who served as the Moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC or Metropolitan Community Churches). On Sunday, 29 October 2005, at Washington's National Cathedral, Wilson was installed as Moderator of the Metropolitan Community Churches in succession to the denomination's founder, Troy Perry. Wilson retired from her position in October 2016, and was succeeded by Interim Moderator Rev. Elder Rachelle Brown. Wilson was elected moderator of the denomination of