ཡུལ་ངེས་

JH-ENG, IW, RY

determining factor

JH-ENG

determining [mental] factor; *

JH-SKT

viSaya-pratiniyama; viniyata

JH-DIVT

དབྱེ་བ། 

1 འདུན་པ་

2 མོས་པ་

3 དྲན་པ་

4 ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་

5 ཤེས་རབ་

JH-DIVE

Divisions: 

(1) aspiration (chanda); 

(2) belief (adhimokSa); 

(3) mindfulness (smRti); 

(4) meditative stabilization (samAdhi);

 (5) wisdom (prajJA)

JH-ST

ཡུལ་སོ་སོར་ངེས་པ་

JH-C

Comment: Determining mental factors are one of six main groupings of mental factors (sems byung, caitta): 

(1) five omnipresent ( ཀུན་འགྲོ་, sarvatraga) mental factors; 

(2) five determining (ཡུལ་ངེས་, viSaya-pratiniyama) mental factors; 

(3) eleven virtuous ( དགེ་བ་, kuzala) mental factors; 

(4) six root afflictions ( རྩ་ཉོན་, mUla-kleza); 

(5) twenty secondary afflictions ( ཉེ་ཉོང་, upakleza); and 

(6) four changeable ( གཞན་འགྱུར་, anyathAbhAva) mental factors.

JV

object determining (mental events), mibp 29, object-ascertained