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.

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.