BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -F-
- factors, mental: s. cetasika. - F. of absorption, s. jhāna - F. of enlightenment, s. bojjhanga.
- faculties: indriya; see also paccaya 16.
- fading away: s. virāga.
- faith: saddhā.
- faith-devotee and faith-liberated one: s. ariyapuggala (B).
- faithful-natured: saddhā-carita; s. carita.
- fatalism: s. ditthi.
- favour, 4 ways of showing sangaha-vatthu.
- feeling: vedanā; further s. khandha. - Contemplation of f.: vedanānupassanā; s. satipatthāna.
- femininity: s bhāva, indriya.
- fetters: The 10 f. binding to existence; s. samyojana.
- 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. viññāna-kicca.
- five-group existence: pañca-vokāra-bhava.
- fixed destiny: s. niyata-micchā-ditthi, niyata-puggala.<< /i>/p>
- fixity: s. niyama, tathatā, dhamma-tthiti-ñāna.
- floods, the 4: ogha, are identical with the 4 cankers (āsava).
- food, material: is one of the 4 nutriments (āhāra). Foodproduced corporeality, s. samutthāna. - Refusing all further f., s. dhutanga. - Loathsomeness of f. s. āhāre patikkūla-saññā.
- foolish babble: sampha-ppalāpa; s. karma, kammapatha (I); cf. tiracchāna-kathā.
- forbearance: khanti.
- forest-dweller, the ascetic practice for the: s. dhutanga.
- formation: sankhāra.
- foundation: nissaya, one of the 24 conditions (paccaya). Wrong f. of morality, s. nissaya. - f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu - f.-forming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna; - f. of an Arahat's mentality: s. adhitthāna.
- foundations of mindfulness, the 4: satipatthāna.
- four-group existence: catu-vokāra-bhava.
- freedom of will, problem of the: cf. paticcasamuppāda (X).
- friend, noble: kalyāna-mitta.
- frivolous talk: cf. tiracchāna-kathā, kamma-patha (I, 7), karma.
- fruition (result of supermundane path): phala; s. ariyapuggala (A) .
- fruits of monk-life: sāmañña-phala.
- full comprehension: pariññā.
- functional consciousness, or consciousness functioning independently of karma: kiriya-citta; see viññāna-kicca.
- functions of consciousness: viññāna-kicca.