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==Further reading==
==Further reading==


*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Up%C4%81saka# Upāsaka] at Theosopedia
*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/upasaka Upāsaka] at Theosophy World.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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Latest revision as of 15:43, 21 November 2023

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.

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Notes

  1. Jan Nattier, A Few Good Men: The Bodhisattva Path according to The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparpṛcchā) (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003), 25.