Upāsaka
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Upāsaka (masculine) (fem. upāsikā) are from the Sanskrit and Pāli words for "attendant" or "he who serves" and the word is best understood as "lay auxiliary" of a Buddhist monastic community who are not monks, nuns, or novice monastics, and who undertake certain vows.[1]
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
Further reading
- Upāsaka at Theosopedia