Samanera

A sāmaṇera (Pali; Sanskrit: श्रामणेर, romanized: śrāmaṇera), is a novice male monk in a Buddhist context.

In some South and Southeast Asian Buddhist traditions, the term refers to someone who has taken the initial pravrajya vows but not the upasampada or full ordination.

The Buddha called Sariputta and asked him to ordain Rāhula, who became the first sāmaṇera.The King (Suddhodana), discovering that now his grandson and a number of young men in the royal family had requested ordination, asked the Buddha only to ordain a minor with the consent of his parents or guardian.

Novice nuns (Standard Tibetan: getsulma, or Sanskrit: śrāmaṇeras and śrāmaṇeris) honor their vows of the Ten Precepts as their code of behaviour.

The ordination rituals depend on the nun's specific tradition of Buddhism, while the number of their precepts increases substantially.