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# Lay Buddhist Practice:

## The Shrine Room, Uposatha Day, Rains Residence

by

### Bhikkhu Khantipalo

The Wheel Publication No. 206/207
ISSN Cey. 0068-3345

First Edition 1974
Reprint 1982

Copyright © 1974, 1982, 1995 Buddhist Publication Society

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### Contents

- Preface
- Introduction
- Daily Practice:
  - The Shrine Room
  - The Offerings
  - Gestures of Respect
  - The Preliminary Formula for Revering the Buddha
  - The Three Refuges
  - The Five Precepts
  - Recollections:
    - Recollection of the Three Treasures
    - Affirmation of Refuge in the Three Treasures
    - The Five Subjects for Daily Recollection
    - The Development of Loving-Kindness
  - Meditation
  - Anumodana
  - Chanting
  - The Laity's Practice of Dhamma
- Uposatha
  - The Eight Precepts
- The Rains Residence
- The Purpose of These Practices
- The Discourse to Visakha on the Uposatha with the Eight Practices
- Appendix of Pali Passages

Revised: Thu 17 May 2001