Discipline. This term has several senses in ecclesiastical usage: (1) Any system of ascetic life such as is practiced by those living under monastic rule; (2) in a more general sense, the entire system of ecclesiastical law, custom, and administration; (3) in a special sense the term is used to designate the system of Church government instituted by the Calvinists and later adopted in Presbyterianism including the methods of dealing with offenders by the imposition of penalties varying from simple admonition to deposition and, in extreme cases, excommunication, through a system consisting of a hierarchy of courts; and (4) the term is applied to a whip of cords traditionally used in certain monastic and other religious communities as a penitential exercise. Its regular, moderate use for selfflagellation is still encouraged in the more austere orders of men and women.

Geddes MacGregor, Dictionary of Religion and Philosophy, New York: Paragon House, 1989

 discipline : (m.) sikkhā; dama; niggaha. (f.) sikkhā. (v.t.) vineti; sikkheti; dameti. (pp.)vinīta; sikkhita; damita or danta.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

dul ba

[tenses]

• dul/
• dul/
• duld/
• duld/

[translation-san] {MSA,C} dama

[translation-san] {C,MSA} dānta

[translation-san] {C} damana

[translation-san] {C} damayti

[translation-san] {C} dāntatā

[translation-san] {MSA} vinīta

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} discipline; tamed

[translation-eng] {C} completely tamed; self-discipline; tames

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gdul

[translation-san] {MSA} (√dam}: damayet

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} discipline

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gdul ba

[translation-san] {C} vinayana

[translation-san] {MSA} vinaya

[translation-san] {MSA} vineya

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} discipline; disciplining

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gdul bya

[translation-san] {MSA,N} vineya

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} noun: trainee{N}; disciple verb: tame; discipline; subdue

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'dul

[tenses]

• gdul/
• 'dul/
• btul/
• thuld/

[translation-san] {MSA} naya

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} to tame; discipline; subdue

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'dul ba

[translation-san] {C,MSA} vinaya

[translation-san] {vi √nī} : {MSA}vinayati

[translation-san] {MSA} vinayana

[translation-san] {MSA} vineya

[translation-san] {C} damana

[translation-san] {C} dharṣayati

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} discipline; monastic discipline; to be tamed; to be trained

[translation-eng] {C} self-discipline; overpower; subdue

[comments] one of the five main divisions of study in Tibetan Ge-luk-ba monasteries; the others are: valid cognition (tshad ma, pramāṇa); perfection of wisdom (phar phyin, prajñā-pāramitā); the middle way school (dbu ma, mādhyamaka); and the Compendium of Knowledge (chos mngon mdzod, abhidharma-kośa)

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'dul ba nyid pa

[translation-san] {C} vinayanatā

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} discipline

[translation-eng] {C} fact of disciplining

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'dul bar byed

[translation-san] {MSA} (√dam): damayati

[translation-san] {MSA} (vi √nī): vinayanti

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} discipline   

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sdom pa

[translation-san] {LCh,C,L} saṃvara

[translation-san] {MSA} saṃvṛtti

[translation-san] {C} saṃyama

[translation-san] {C} saṃcara

[translation-san] {C} saṃlekha

[translation-san] {MSA} yang dag par sdom pa = saṃyama

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} vow; bind; tie; fasten; obligation; bring together; collect; discipline

[translation-eng] {C} restraint(s); restrain; self-mastery; engagement; (austere) penance

[comments] compare: dam tshig, pledge

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