Uddaka Rāmaputta
One of the teachers of Gautama Buddha / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uddaka Rāmaputta (Pāli; Sanskrit: Udraka Rāmaputra) was a sage and teacher of meditation identified by the Buddhist tradition as one of the teachers of Gautama Buddha.[1] 'Rāmaputta' means 'son of Rāma', who may have been his father or spiritual teacher.[2] Uddaka Rāmaputta taught refined states of meditation known as the dhyanic formless attainments (arūpa samāpatti).[3][4][5][2]