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==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
*[ | *[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/upasaka Upāsaka] at Theosophy World. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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Upasaka (devanāgarī: उपासक upāsaka, feminine upāsikā) is a Sanskrit and Pāli word for "attendant" or "he who serves". The word refers to "lay auxiliaries" of a Buddhist monastic community who are not monks, nuns, or novice monastics, and who undertake certain vows.[1]
H. P. Blavatsky was frequently referred to as "Upasika" by the Mahatmas.
Further reading
- Upāsaka at Theosophy World.
Notes
- ↑ Jan Nattier, A Few Good Men: The Bodhisattva Path according to The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparpṛcchā) (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003), 25.