See “five faculties.”

May refer to the sense faculties (sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste, and the mental faculty). May also refer to the “five faculties”: faith, vigor, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom.

Cognitive faculties; the five senses plus mental faculty.

See “five faculties.”

Refers here to the five faculties that belong to the thirty-seven factors conducive to awakening: faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge. In certain contexts, this term can also refer to the sense faculties.

Most commonly refers to the cognitive faculties: the five senses plus the mental faculty. Also used here to refer to various faculties in a more general sense. See also the “five spiritual faculties.”

The term “faculties,” depending on the context, can refer to the five senses (sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste) plus the mental faculty, but also to spiritual “faculties,” see “five faculties.”

Refers to the “five faculties” and, more generally, the sense faculties and other capacities of beings.

Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge.

Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and wisdom. These five are part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening.

These are spiritual capacities to be developed: faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and insight. These are included in the thirty-seven factors of awakening. They are the same as the five powers at a lesser stage of development.

Cognitive faculties; the five senses plus mental faculty.

The term “faculties,” depending on the context, can refer to the five senses (sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste) plus the mental faculty, totaling six, but also to spiritual “faculties.” See “five faculties.”

The five faculties, belonging to the thirty-seven aids to awakening, are faith, perseverance, mindfulness, meditative concentration, and wisdom.

May refer to the sense faculties or one’s cognitive power, according to context.

The five spiritual “faculties” or capacities to be developed: faith (śraddhā), diligence (vīrya), mindfulness (smṛti), absorption (samādhi), and wisdom (prajñā). These are included in the thirty-seven factors of awakening.

See “five powers.”

When five, they are faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge. These are the same as the five strengths. When listed as ten they refer to ten clairvoyant knowledges of a buddha: (1) the knowledge of what is possible and impossible, (2) the knowledge of the ripening of karma, (3) the knowledge of the variety of aspirations, (4) the knowledge of the variety of natures, (5) the knowledge of the different capabilities, (6) the knowledge of the destinations of all paths, (7) the knowledge of various states of meditation (concentration, liberation, absorption, etc.), (8) the knowledge of remembering previous lives, (9) the knowledge of deaths and rebirths, and (10) the knowledge of the cessation of defilements.

The five powers: faith, mindfulness, diligence, samādhi, and wisdom.

The five powers: faith, mindfulness, diligence, samādhi, and wisdom.

The five powers, or faculties, are those of (1) faith, (2) perseverence, (3) mindfulness, (4) meditative absorption or samādhi, and (5) wisdom or prajñā.

Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge. These are among the thirty-seven factors of awakening.

Faith, mindfulness, diligence, samādhi, and wisdom.

Faith, mindfulness, diligence, samādhi, and wisdom.

Faith, mindfulness, diligence, samādhi, and wisdom.

Faith, mindfulness, diligence, samādhi, and wisdom.

See “five faculties” when part of the thirty-seven dharmas on the side of awakening and “six faculties” as in the sense faculties. In some contexts indriya is rendered as “dominant.”

A term with a wide range of meanings, it often refers to the five faculties of faith, diligence, mindfulness, meditative absorption, and insight, which are among the thirty-seven aspects of awakening; or to the five sense faculties; or to one of the twenty-two faculties. There is also an alternative list of “six faculties” mentioned in this sūtra which actually seems to list eight; see UT22084-045-001-580 and UT22084-045-001-581.

A term with a wide range of meanings. Often refers to one or all of the five faculties (faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge) that are among the thirty-seven factors of awakening (q.v.); or to the five sense faculties; or to one of the twenty-two faculties (q.v.).

Depending on the context, indriya can refer to the five senses (sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste) plus the mental faculty.

A term with a wide range of meanings. Often refers to the five faculties, namely: faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge, that are among the thirty-seven factors of awakening; or to the five sense faculties; or to one of the twenty-two faculties.

“Faculties” is a translation meant to represent the preferred etymologization of indriya in Buddhist texts as indanti, meaning “they have power,” which is also reflected in the Tibetan translation as dbang po. Different lists of indriyas exist within the Buddhist texts, their common trait being that they have “power” over a specific domain of activity. For example, the five sense faculties have causal power with respect to seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.

See “five faculties” when part of the thirty-seven dharmas on the side of awakening and “six faculties” as in the sense faculties. In some contexts indriya is rendered as “dominant.”

The five strengths comprise faith, diligence, mindfulness, samādhi, and insight. They are part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening. They are the same as the five powers at a lesser stage of development.

One of a list of five qualities cultivated on the first two stages of the path of joining (faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge). These are similar to the five strengths but in a lesser stage of development.

Also translated as “faculty.”

The six sense faculties of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.