OBSERVANCE OF FASTING DAY - ဥေပါသထ
OBSERVANCE OF FASTING DAY Uposatha
ဥေပါသထ - ၁။ ဥပုသ္ေစာင့္ျခင္း၊ ၂။ ဥပုသ္ျပဳျခင္း။
၁။ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္တုိ႔ ကုိယ္ႏႈတ္ျဖဴစင္ေအာင္ ရွစ္ပါးသီလစသည္ျဖင့္ ေစာင့္ထိန္းျခင္းကုိ ဥပုသ္ေစာင့္ျခင္းဟု ေခၚသည္။
၂။ ရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ား လျပည့္လကြယ္ေန႔မ်ားတြင္ ပါတိေမာက္ျပျခင္းကုိ ဥပုသ္ျပဳျခင္းဟု ေခၚသည္။
There are two kinds of observance: one for lay devotees and the other for bhikkhus
(1) The former by keeping the eight precepts by lay devotees as a means of purification of physical and mental actions.
(2) The latter by reciting the Pᾱtimokkha by bhikkhus on fullmoon and new-moon days.