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#a [[novice nun]] (Skt. ''śrāmanerikā''; Tib. [[དགེ་ཚུལ་མ་]], ''getsulma'')
#a [[novice nun]] (Skt. ''śrāmanerikā''; Tib. [[དགེ་ཚུལ་མ་]], ''getsulma'')
#a [[female novice in training for full ordination]] (Skt. ''śikṣamāṇā''; Tib. [[དགེ་སློབ་མ་]])
#a [[female novice in training for full ordination]] (Skt. ''śikṣamāṇā''; Tib. [[དགེ་སློབ་མ་]])
#a male lay practitioner (Skt. ''[[upāsaka]]''; Tib. [[དགེ་བསྙེན་]])
#a male lay practitioner (Skt. ''[[upāsaka]]''; Tib. [[དགེ་བསྙེན་]], ''genyen'')
#a female lay practitioner (Skt. ''[[upāsikā]]''; Tib. [[དགེ་བསྙེན་མ་]])<noinclude>
#a female lay practitioner (Skt. ''[[upāsikā]]''; Tib. [[དགེ་བསྙེན་མ་]], ''genyenma'')<noinclude>


There are sometimes said to be [[eight types of pratimoksha vows]].  
There are sometimes said to be [[eight types of pratimoksha vows]].  

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The seven types of pratimoksha vows (Wyl. so thar gyi sdom pa bdun) are the vows of:

  1. a fully ordained monk (Skt. bhikṣu; Tib. དགེ་སློང་, gelong)
  2. a fully ordained nun (Skt. bhikṣuṇī; Tib. དགེ་སློང་མ་, gelongma)
  3. a novice monk (Skt. śrāmanera; Tib. དགེ་ཚུལ་, getsul)
  4. a novice nun (Skt. śrāmanerikā; Tib. དགེ་ཚུལ་མ་, getsulma)
  5. a female novice in training for full ordination (Skt. śikṣamāṇā; Tib. དགེ་སློབ་མ་)
  6. a male lay practitioner (Skt. upāsaka; Tib. དགེ་བསྙེན་, genyen)
  7. a female lay practitioner (Skt. upāsikā; Tib. དགེ་བསྙེན་མ་, genyenma)

There are sometimes said to be eight types of pratimoksha vows.