信

(sa) śraddhā. Faith; to believe; belief; faith regarded as the faculty of the mind which sees, appropriates, and trusts the things of religion; it joyfully trusts in the Buddha, in the pure virtue of the (sa) triratna and earthly and transcendental goodness; it is the cause of the pure life, and the solvent of doubt. Two forms are mentioned:

(1) (sa) adhimukti, intuition, tr. by self-assured enlightenment.

(2) (sa) śraddhā, faith through hearing or being taught. For the <Awakening of Faith>, <Śraddhotpāda>, v. 起信論.