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སྟོབས་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
- pañca balāni
- pañcabalāni
- bala
- Term
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañca balāni
Part of the thirty-seven aspects of awakening.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Faith, perseverance, mindfulness, meditative stabilization, and wisdom. These are among the thirty-seven dharmas on the side of awakening. Although the same as the five faculties, they are termed “powers” due to their greater strength. See also “ten powers.”
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
As listed in UT22084-031-002-163, these comprise (1) the power of faith, (2) the power of perseverance, (3) the power of recollection, (4) the power of meditative stability, and (5) the power of wisdom.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
- 五力
Faith, mindfulness, diligence, concentration, and insight. Similar to the five faculties but differing in that they cannot be shaken by adverse conditions.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
These are faith, diligence, mindfulness, meditative absorption, and insight as they manifest on the last two stages of the path of joining.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala AS
Faith, mindfulness, diligence, concentration, and insight. Similar to the five faculties but differing in that they cannot be shaken by adverse conditions. See also UT22084-046-001-171.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and insight as they manifest on the last two stages of the path of joining. See also “ten powers.”
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and insight. These are the same as the five strengths at a further stage of development.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
The powers of faith, vigor, recollection, concentration, and insight.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- bala
These are the same as the five spiritual faculties, at a further stage of development.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabalāni
Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge. Although the same as the faculties, they are termed “powers” due to their greater strength.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
The powers of faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and wisdom. These five are part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening.
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabalāni
- five powers
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Faith, perseverance, mindfulness, meditative stabilization, and wisdom. These are among the thirty-seven dharmas on the side of awakening. Although the same as the five faculties, they are termed “powers” due to their greater strength (on their difference, see UT23703-093-001-15202). See also “ten powers.”
- five strengths
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
The five strengths are a stronger form of the five powers: faith, mindfulness, diligence, samādhi, and wisdom.
- five strengths
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Faith, vigor, mindfulness, absorption, and insight. Although the same as the five spiritual faculties, they are stronger in terms of not being shaken by adverse conditions.
- Five strengths
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Similar to the five faculties but at a further stage of development and thus cannot be shaken by adverse conditions, these are: faith (śraddhā), diligence (vīrya), mindfulness (smṛti), absorption (samādhi), and insight (prajña).
- five strengths
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and knowledge.
- five strengths
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
Faith, diligence, mindfulness, absorption, and insight. These are the same as the five powers, at a further stage of development.
- five strengths
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabala
The strengths of faith, heroism, mindfulness, samādhi, and wisdom. They are the same as the five faculties, only at a greater stage of development.
- five forces
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- stobs lnga
- pañcabalāni
Differing only in intensity, the five forces are similar to the five faculties: (1) faith, (2) vigor, (3) mindfulness, (4) concentration (samādhi), and (5) wisdom (prajñā).