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Glossarytudong (Thai) The practice of wandering in the country and living onalmsfood. see dhutaṅga. v, 625, 669, 730, 757, 758Uddaka Rāmaputta The second teacher of the Bodhisatta, who taughtthe formless meditation of the base of ‘neither perception nor nonperception’as the highest attainment of the Holy Life. 294ujupaṭipanno Those whose practice is straight or direct. 527upacāra-samādhi ‘Neighbourhood’ or access concentration; a degreeof concentration before entering absorption or jhāna. see jhāna. 316,406, 523upādāna Clinging; grasping; attachment; sustenance for becomingand birth – attachment to sensuality, to views, to precepts and practices,and to theories of the self. 159, 196, 245, 386, 405, 592, 713,761upāsaka A lay devotee (male). , 765upasampadā Acceptance; full ordination as a bhikkhu or bhikkhunī. seepabbajjā. , 754, 755, 764, 768upāsikā A lay devotee (female). , 765upekkhā Equanimity. One of the ten perfections (pāramīs) and one ofthe four ‘sublime abodes’. see brahmavihāra. 299, 701, 765uposatha Observance day, corresponding to the phases of the moon,on which Buddhist lay people gather to listen to the Dhamma andto observe the eight precepts. On the new-moon and full-moonuposatha days monks assemble to recite the Pātimokkha rules. 383,595vaṭṭa That which is done, which goes on or is customary, i.e. duty,service, custom. In the Buddhist context, it refers to the cycle ofbirth, death, and rebirth. This denotes both the death and rebirth of773