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Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) are from the
Sanskrit and Pāli
words for "attendant". This is the
title of
followers of
Buddhism (or, historically...
- and who
would pursue freedom from
attachments to
houses and families.
Upāsakas and upāsikās, also
called śrāvakas and śrāvikās - are
householders and...
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individual liberation are
taken in four steps. A lay
person may take the five
upāsaka and upāsikā vows (Wylie: dge
snyan (ma), "approaching virtue"). The next...
- (five
years after the
Kalinga campaign), he
states that he had been an
upasaka (lay Buddhist) for more than two and a half years, but did not make much...
- He
succeeded after Sanjaya Mahākosala. As a king, he was a
prominent Upāsaka or lay
follower of
Gautama Buddha, and
built many
Buddhist monasteries...
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Richard Hunn (1949–2006) had the lay-Buddhist name of
Upasaka Wen Shu. He was the
disciple of
Charles Luk (1898–1978) and
practiced Chan Buddhism, as...
- Rōshi Lama
Rinpoche Geshe Tulku Western tulku Kappiya Donchee Householder Upāsaka and Upāsikā
Achar Śrāvaka Ten prin****l
disciples Shaolin Monastery Major...
- sadhana). He couldn't find
anyone who met the
criteria except a
Buddhist upasaka. The u****
initially refused to be the ****istant to a tirthika, but Narada...
- Rōshi Lama
Rinpoche Geshe Tulku Western tulku Kappiya Donchee Householder Upāsaka and Upāsikā
Achar Śrāvaka Ten prin****l
disciples Shaolin Monastery Major...
- or catuparisā ("fourfold ****embly") to
refer to the bhikkhu, bhikkhunī,
upāsaka, and upāsikā. In a
glossary of
Buddhist terms,
Richard Robinson et al....
