1. a companion, adviser; teacher.
2. the preceptor (of a bhikkhu); an instructor; the sponsor for a bhikkhu’s upasampadā.

the preceptress (of a bhikkhunī); an instructor.

…deputy or substitute of the upajjhāya. Vin.i.45, Vin.i.53, Vin.i.62, Vin.i.120; Vin.iv.130; SN.i.185; AN.ii.66, AN.ii.78; AN.iii.69; Snp-a.346;…

He was upajjhāya to Upāli, and once lived in a cemetery near Vesāli. In the cemetery the group of six nuns buried the ashes of one of their…

…was the preceptor (upajjhāya) of Vaṅgīsa, and together they lived in Aggālava cetiya, SN.i.185 where Kappa died. When Vaṅgīsa…

…Vin.ii.182

Upāli’s upajjhāya was Kappitaka. Vin.iv.308

In the assembly of the Saṅgha, the Buddha declared him to be the most…

…himself, Vin.ii.182 his upajjhāya being Belatthasīsa.Vin.i.202 Vin.iv.86 Soon after, he heard a discourse by Puṇṇa Mantāniputta and…

without a teacher, without a preceptor.

…of) dependence and guidance and supervision (under an upajjhāya or ācariya)

(one) having the status of preceptor; like a preceptor

deriving from the preceptor

adjective noun that which is personal, subjective, arises from within (in contrast to anything outside, objective or impersonal); as adv. & ˚interior, personal, inwardly (opp.; bahiddhā bāhira etc o …

…patta˚, cīvara˚, upajjhāya˚ ācariya˚, senāsana˚); Ja.ii.11; Ja.vi.402
■ lesa-kappa pretext Vin.ii.166; Vv.84#43 (=…

…with upajjhāya) Vin.i.60, Vin.i.61, Vin.i.119 (˚upajjhāya); Vin.ii.231; Vin.iv.130 (gaṇo vā ācariyo a meeting of…