BUDDHIST DICTIONARY
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factors, mental: s. cetasika. – F. of absorption, s. jhāna – F. of enlightenment, s. bojjhaṅga.
faculties: indriya (q.v.); see also paccaya 16.
fading away: s. virāga.
faith: saddhā (q.v.).
faith-devotee and faith-liberated one: s. ariyapuggala (B).
faithful-natured: saddhā-carita; s. carita.
fatalism: s. diṭṭhi.
favour, 4 ways of showing saṅgaha-vatthu. (q.v.).
feeling: vedanā (q.v.); further s. khandha. – Contemplation of f.: vedanānupassanā; s. Satipaṭṭhāna.
femininity: s bhāva, indriya.
fetters: The 10 f. binding to existence; s. saṃyojana.
few wishes: s. appicchatā.
fine-material sphere or world: s. avacara, loka. Absorptions of the: rūpa-jjhāna; s. jhāna.
fire-element: s. dhātu (I).
fivefold sense-door, Advertence to the: pañcadvārāvajjana; s. viññāṇa-kicca.
five-group existence: pañca-vokāra-bhava (q.v.).
fixed destiny: s. niyata-micchā-diṭṭhi, niyata-puggala.
fixity: s. niyama, tathatā, dhamma-ṭṭhiti-ñāṇa.
floods, the 4: ogha, are identical with the 4 cankers (āsava, q.v.).
food, material: is one of the 4 nutriments (āhāra, q.v.). Foodproduced corporeality, s. samuṭṭhāna. – Refusing all further f., s. dhutaṅga. – Loathsomeness of f. s. āhāre paṭikkūla-saññā.
foolish babble: sampha-ppalāpa; s. kamma, kammapatha (I); cf. tiracchāna-kathā.
forbearance: khanti (q.v.).
forest-dweller, the ascetic practice for the: s. dhutaṅga.
formation: saṅkhāra (q.v.).
foundation: nissaya, one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.). Wrong f. of morality, s. nissaya. – f. of sympathy: saṅgaha-vatthu (q.v.) – f.-forming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna (q.v.); – f. of an Arahat’s mentality: s. adhiṭṭhāna.
foundations of mindfulness, the 4: Satipaṭṭhāna(q.v.) .
four-group existence: catu-vokāra-bhava (q.v.).
freedom of will, problem of the: cf. paṭiccasamuppāda (X).
friend, noble: kalyāṇa-mitta (q.v.).
frivolous talk: cf. tiracchāna-kathā, kamma-patha (I, 7), kamma.
fruition (result of supermundane path): phala; s. ariyapuggala (A) .
fruits of monk-life: sāmañña-phala (q.v.)
full comprehension: pariññā (q.v.).
functional consciousness, or consciousness functioning independently of kamma: kiriya-citta (q.v.); see viññāṇa-kicca.
functions of consciousness: viññāṇa-kicca (q.v.).
