The ceremony of full or higher ordination by which a male or female novice is confirmed as a fully ordained member of the order of monks or nuns (see Buswell and Lopez 2014, s.v. “upasaṃpadā”).

The ceremony of full or higher ordination by which a novice (śrāmaṇera) or a female postulant (śikṣamāṇā) is confirmed as a fully ordained member of the order of nuns or monks (see Buswell and Lopez 2014, s.v. “upasaṃpadā”).

The formal term for granting orders and confirming a candidate as a bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī.

Someone fully ordained.

The formal term for granting orders and confirming a candidate as a monk.