#Ananda

“The man who remembered everything was put on trial by the order he had just saved — charged, among other things, with getting women ordained — and answered: I see no fault in myself; but out of faith in the elders, I confess.”

“Every Buddhist scripture on earth opens with his four words — evaṃ me sutaṃ, "Thus have I heard" — because one man made his memory the container of a religion, after negotiating away every perk of the job that would have let anyone doubt it.”