Uposatha | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Uposatha


00:00:41 1 Observance days
00:00:58 1.1 Theravada countries
00:02:26 1.2 Mahayana countries
00:03:05 1.3 Names of Full Moon Uposatha Days
00:03:26 2 History
00:04:06 3 Practice
00:04:15 3.1 Lay practice
00:07:45 3.2 Monastic practice
00:08:21 3.3 Communal reciprocity
00:09:38 4 Special Uposatha days
00:12:05 5 See also
00:12:31 6 Notes
00:12:40 7 Bibliography
00:12:49 8 External links



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The Uposatha (Sanskrit: Upavasatha) is a Buddhist day of observance, in existence from the Buddha's time (600 BCE), and still being kept today in Buddhist countries. The Buddha taught that the Uposatha day is for "the cleansing of the defiled mind," resulting in inner calm and joy. On this day, both lay and ordained members of the sangha intensify their practice, deepen their knowledge and express communal commitment through millennia-old acts of lay-monastic reciprocity. On these days, the lay followers make a conscious effort to keep the Five Precepts or (as the tradition suggests) the eight precepts. It is a day for practicing the Buddha's teachings and meditation.