will work. Buddha, ONLY BUDDHA gives the Upanayanam in Kaliyuga: In the Visuddhimagga it is called "opanayiko" or "upanayanam" as the practice leads "onwards to Nirvana ": nibanam upaneti ti ariya maggo upaneyo...opanayiko,"It leads on to nibanna, thus the Eightfold Path is onward leading...so it is leading onwards." In Buddhism, a