One of the factors of awakening. It is also included in the lists of the five spiritual faculties, the five strengths, and the seven riches.

One of the five powers and five abilities.

In this sūtra, the first of the ten factors that lead to awakening.

Here “faith” is not used so much in the sense of “religious faith,” but rather as when one says, “I have faith in you” or “I have faith in your good qualities.” It is often explained as “a good disposition of the mind” (cetasaḥ prasādaḥ) toward something and is occasionally divided into three types: faith as the conviction that something exists, faith as the conviction that something has good qualities, and faith as the conviction that something with good qualities can be obtained.