FASTING DAYS - ဥေပါသထဒိ၀သ

FASTING DAYS Uposathadivasa

ဥေပါသထဒိ၀သ -      ဥပုသ္ေန႔၊ လူပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ား ၈-ပါးသီလ က်င့္သုံးေသာေန႔၊ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ဥပုသ္ျပဳေသာေန႔။

ျမတ္စြာဘုရား၏ သာသနာေတာ္၌ ၈-ပါးသီလ ေစာင့္ထိန္းရေသာေန႔မ်ားကုိ (ဥေပါသထဒိ၀သ) ဥပုသ္ေန႔မ်ားဟု ေခၚဆုိသတ္မွတ္ၾကသည္။ လဆန္း ၈-ရက္၊ လဆန္း ၁၅-ရက္ (လျပည့္ေန႔)၊ လဆုတ္ ၈-ရက္၊ လဆုတ္ ၁၄-ရက္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ ၁၅-ရက္ (လကြယ္)ေန႔မ်ားသည္ လူပုဂၢဳိလ္တုိ႔၏ ဥပုသ္ေန႔မ်ားျဖစ္ၾကသည္။

ရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားသည္ လျပည့္, လကြယ္ေန႔မ်ား၌ ပါတိေမာက္ ႐ြတ္ဆုိ၍ ဥပုသ္ျပဳၾကရသည္။

Uposatha day, the specially assigned days of the month on which lay folks observe the Uposatha (eight) precepts; the days marked for the members of the Order to recite pᾱtimokkha.

In the Teaching of the Buddha, the days for observance of the eight precepts are called uposatha divasa or uposatha days. The eighth and fifteenth days of the waxing half of the lunar month and the eighth and either the fourteenth or the fifteenth days of waning half of the lunar month are the fasting days.

The members of the Order observe uposatha on the fifteenth day of the waxing half of the month, as well as on the new moon days which fall alternately on the fourteenth and the fifteenth of the waning half of the month.