[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c9.768 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c9.768 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c9.768 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.768](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.768) Uddaka-Rāmaputta.—One of the teachers under whom Gotama, after leaving the world and before he became the Buddha, received instruction.¹ Uddaka taught him the doctrine which had been realised and proclaimed by his father Rāma, which was the attainment of the state of "neither-consciousness-nor-unconsciousness" (corresponding to the fourth Jhāna). When Gotama had mastered this, Uddaka made him more than his own equal by setting him over the whole company of his disciples as their teacher. But Gotama, finding this doctrine unsatisfactory, abandoned it.² The Buddha evidently had a high regard for Uddaka-Rāmaputta, for after the Enlightenment, when looking for someone to whom the Dhamma might be preached, and who was capable of realising its import at once, his thoughts turned to Uddaka, but Uddaka was already dead.³ - [Previous: v1.c9.767](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.767) - [Next: v1.c9.769](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.769) - [Up: v1.c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.768](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.768) · Pramāṇa