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Vinaya

The Vinaya ( Pali and Sanskrit, literally meaning "leading out", "education", "discipline") is the regulatory framework for the sangha or monastic community of Buddhism based on the canonical texts called the Vinaya Pitaka. The teachings of the Gautama Buddha can be divided into two broad categories: Dharma "doctrine" and Vinaya "discipline".

Extant vinaya texts include those of the Theravada (the only one in Pali), the Kāśyapīya, the Mahāsāṃghika, the Mahīśāsaka, the Dharmaguptaka, the Sarvāstivāda and the Mūlasarvāstivāda.

Usage examples of "vinaya".

The Vinaya Hall was the disciplinary centre of the Shaolin Monastery complex.

This message was conveyed to him by eight Brothers from the Vinaya Hall, the disciplinary centre of the monastery.

The poor man had taken to heart what Trinket had said after his interrogation in the Vinaya Hall a month earlier about Shaolin monks with years of training being no match for untrained girls.

A devotional recitation of Do and Vinaya, prayers cloistered century after century in the soot, fingered on wooden boards by wrinkled flesh, the flesh of alliteration that clings to these words of the Guatama.