和上 A senior monk (a teacher-monk) who has the authority to administer the precepts.

和尚

親教師 A teacher who imparts the precepts and/or intimately guides the student (upadhyāna).

upâdhy-āya m. (√i), a teacher, preceptor (who subsists by teaching a part of the Veda or Vedāṅgas, grammar &c

• he is distinguished from the Ācārya, q.v.) Mn. iv, 141, &c. Yājñ. i, 35 MBh. Śak. &c

• (ā, or ī), f. a female teacher Kāty. on Pāṇ. 3-13, 21

• (ī), f. the wife of a teacher Kāty. on Pāṇ. 4-1, 49

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William