Question

Description acceptable. After seeing one of these people paying homage to the six directional quarters, the Buddha teaches the Sigalovada Sutta to offer a code of conduct for these people, whose faith and virtues are also delineated in the Mahanama Sutta. One of these people named Citta, a renowned teacher of the dharma, once declared he did not want to be a king in his next life because that was an impermanent state. In his namesake Mahayana sutra, another of these people named Vimalakirti (-5[1])feigns (-5[1])illness so that he is able to teach the dharma (15[2])to his well-wishers. Boys temporarily lose their status as these people during the shinbyu (*) rite of passage in Myanmar. These people make offerings such as new robes (-5[1])during the (-5[1])kathina ceremony and, (10[1])(emphasize) unusually, observe eight (10[1])precepts during Uposatha Days rather than their typical five. For 10 points, name these people who, through almsgiving, support the monastic (10[1])Sangha. (10[3]0[2])■END■

ANSWER: layperson [accept layman or laywoman or laity; accept householders or merchants; accept upāsaka or upāsikā; prompt on disciples or companions of the Buddha with “what other trait made him unique?”; prompt on bodhisattvas or stages of enlightenment like sotapanna, stream-enterer, anagami, or non-returner with “what kind of person were they before attaining enlightenment?”]
<AY, Religion (Buddhism)>
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