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{{Buddhist term
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| title=pañcabalāni
| sa=पञ्चबलानि (pañcabalāni)
| pi=pañcabalāni
| en= the five powers,<br/>the five strengths 
| bo= སྟོབས་ལྔའི་མིང་ལ་
| bo-Latn=[[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]: stobs lnga'i ming la
| ja=五力
| ja-Latn= goriki
| ko = 오력
| ko-Latn = olyeog
| vi = ngũ lực
| zh=五力
| zh-Latn=wǔ lì
}}
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The '''Five Strengths''' ([[Sanskrit]], [[Pali]]: ''{{IAST|pañcabalāni}}'') in Buddhism are [[Saddha|faith]], [[Viriya|energy]], [[Mindfulness (Buddhism)|mindfulness]], [[Samadhi (Buddhism)|concentration]], and [[Wisdom in Buddhism|wisdom]].  They are one of the seven sets of "[[Bodhipakkhiyadhamma|qualities conducive to enlightenment]]." They are parallel facets of the five "[[Indriya|spiritual faculties]]."

==Translation==
''Pañca'' (Sanskrit, Pali) means "five."<ref>See Rhys Davids & Stede (1921-25), p. 387, entry for "Pañca," retrieved 2008-03-11 from "U. of Chicago" at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:971.pali{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; and, Monier-Williams (1964), e.g., p. 579, entry "Pañcaka," retrieved 2008-03-11 from "U. of Cologne" at http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/MWScanpdf/mw0578-paJcAGguri.pdf.</ref> ''Bala'' (Sanskrit, Pali) means "power," "strength," "force."<ref>See Rhys Davids & Stede (1921-25), p. 482, entry for "Bala," retrieved 2008-03-11 from "U. of Chicago" at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:3245.pali{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; and, Monier-Williams (1964), p. 722, entry "Bala," retrieved 2008-03-11 from "U. of Cologne" at http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/serveimg.pl?file=/scans/MWScan/MWScanjpg/mw0722-barAsI.jpg.</ref>

==Exegesis==
Faith and Wisdom balance each other, as do Energy and Concentration.
The Five Faculties are ‘controlling' faculties because they control or master their opposites.
The faculties and powers are two aspects of the same thing.

#Faith/Conviction ([[Faith in Buddhism|saddhā]] bala) - controls doubt
#Energy/Effort/Persistence ([[Vīrya|viriya]] bala) – controls laziness
#Mindfulness ([[Sati (Buddhism)|sati]] bala) - controls heedlessness
#Concentration ([[Samadhi|samādhi]] bala) - controls distraction
#Wisdom/Discernment ([[Prajñā (Buddhism)|paññā]] bala) – controls ignorance

==See also==
* [[Bodhipakkhiyadhamma]] - lists the 37 qualities conducive to Enlightenment, which includes the Five Powers.
* [[Five Wisdoms]]
* [[Index of Buddhism-related articles]]
* [[Indriya]] - "faculty," includes extended discussion of the Five Spiritual Faculties.
* [[Secular Buddhism]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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* [[Monier Monier-Williams|Monier-Williams, Monier]] (1899, 1964). ''A Sanskrit–English Dictionary''.  London: Oxford University Press.  An on-line search engine for the MWD is available from the "U. of Cologne" at http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/.
* [[T. W. Rhys Davids|Rhys Davids, T.W.]] & William Stede (eds.) (1921-5). ''The Pali Text Society’s Pali–English Dictionary''. Chipstead: [[Pali Text Society]]. An on-line search engine for the PED is available from "Chicago U." at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/.
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==External links==
*[http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/conze/wheel065.html The Way of Wisdom - The Five Spiritual Faculties, by Edward Conze]
*[http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma7/5powers.html The Five Spiritual Powers, Dharma talk by Sarah Doering]
*[http://www.encyclopedia-of-religion.org/indriya.html Indriyas from Encyclopedia of Spiritual Knowledge]
*[http://www.peacecomics.com/ The Secret of 5 Powers, Comic Book - Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh] 
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