- Buddhist Dictionary
- Manual of Buddhist Terms
and Doctrines
by NYANATILOKA MAHATHERA
-F-
factors, mental: s. cetasika. -
F. of absorption, s. jhána - F. of enlightenment, s. bojjhanga.
faculties: indriya
(q.v.); see also paccaya 16.
fading away: s. virága.
faith: saddhá (q.v.).
faith-devotee and faith-liberated
one: s. ariyapuggala (B).
faithful-natured: saddhá-carita;
s. carita.
fatalism: s. ditthi.
favour, 4 ways of showing sangaha-vatthu.
(q.v.).
feeling: vedaná (q.v.);
further s. khandha. - Contemplation of f.: vedanánupassaná; s. satipatthána.
femininity: s bháva,
indriya.
fetters: The 10 f. binding
to existence; s. samyojana.
few wishes: s. appicchatá.
fine-material sphere or world:
s. avacara, loka. Absorptions of the: rúpa-jjhána; s. jhána.
fire-element: s. dhátu (I).
fivefold sense-door, Advertence to
the: pañcadvárávajjana; s. viññána-kicca.
five-group existence: pañca-vokára-bhava
(q.v.).
fixed destiny: s. niyata-micchá-ditthi,
niyata-puggala.
fixity: s. niyama, tathatá,
dhamma-tthiti-ñána.
floods, the 4: ogha, are
identical with the 4 cankers (ásava, q.v.).
food, material: is one of the 4
nutriments (áhára, q.v.). Foodproduced corporeality, s. samutthána. -
Refusing all further f., s. dhutanga. - Loathsomeness of f. s. áháre
patikkúla-saññá.
foolish babble: sampha-ppalápa;
s. karma, kammapatha (I); cf. tiracchána-kathá.
forbearance: khanti
(q.v.).
forest-dweller, the ascetic
practice for the: s. dhutanga.
formation: sankhára (q.v.).
foundation: nissaya, one of
the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.). Wrong f. of morality, s. nissaya.
- f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu (q.v.) - f.-forming absorptions: pádaka-jjhána
(q.v.); - f. of an Arahat's mentality: s. adhitthána.
foundations of mindfulness, the 4: satipatthána
(q.v.) .
four-group existence: catu-vokára-bhava
(q.v.).
freedom of will, problem of the:
cf. paticcasamuppáda (X).
friend, noble: kalyána-mitta
(q.v.).
frivolous talk: cf. tiracchána-kathá,
kamma-patha (I, 7), karma.
fruition (result of supermundane
path): phala; s. ariyapuggala (A) .
fruits of monk-life: sámañña-phala
(q.v.)
full comprehension: pariññá
(q.v.).
functional consciousness, or
consciousness functioning independently of karma: kiriya-citta (q.v.); see viññána-kicca.
functions of consciousness: viññána-kicca
(q.v.).