Samanera

A sāmaṇera (Pali); Sanskrit śrāmaṇera; traditional Chinese: 沙彌; ; pinyin: shāmí; Korean: 사미. Tibetan: དགེ་ཚུལ་ getsül; Burmese: ရှင်သာမဏေ shin thamanei, Thai: สามเณร samanen, Khmer: សាមណេរ "samaner", Vietnamese: sa di, Sinhala: සාමණේර/හෙරණ) is a novice male monastic in a Buddhist context. A female novitiate is a śrāmaṇerī or śrāmaṇerikā (Sanskrit; Pāli: sāmaṇerī; traditional Chinese: 沙彌尼; ; pinyin: Shāmíní, Sinhala: සාමණේරී).

The 'sāmaṇera' is a Pali language diminutive of the Sanskrit term śrāmaṇa ('strenuous') which indicates an ascetic practitioner. Therefore, sāmaṇera might be said to mean "small or young renunciate". In some South Asian Buddhist traditions, the term refers to someone who has taken the initial pravrajya vows but not the upasampada or full ordination. The prātimokṣa rules do not apply to them and they do not take part in the recital of the rules on uposatha days.

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