1.1
In a somewhat dated article (written over 40 years ago), "The Valuation of Saddhaa in
the Early Buddhist Texts" (University of Ceylon Review 5:48), Mrs EFC Gyomroi-Ludowyk
observes: "if in the using of 'faith' for saddhaa in translating, one restricts
oneself to its meaning of 'confidence, trust, belief' no objection can be raised to
it,' though she also observes that 'as time went on the bhakti cult paved the way for
a new and higher valuation of saddhaa." (Quoted by Jayatilleke, "Early Buddhist
Theory of Knowledge", 1963:384).

1.2
It helps to read Jayatilleke's "Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge" 1963:382 ff on
saddhaa.

1.3
Even better, read Gethin's "The Buddhist Path to Awakening" (2001:106-116). This is a
monumental work on the heart of early Buddhism.
Gethin, amongst other things, discusses the difference between "cognitive faith" and
"affective faith". Clearly here, it would be very contrived and cumbersome to
translate saddhaa as "confidence": "cognitive confidence" and "affective confidence??

Subham astu

Piya

Gunnar Gllmo wrote:

> --- Piya Tan <libris@...> skrev:
> > I'm perfectly fine with "faith" as long as we
> > understand its usage.
>
> I would like some commentaries from native
> English-speakers. It seems to me that English is one
> nuance richer in this case than many other languages,
> with the three terms "confidence", "faith", and
> "belief"; my own language, Swedish, has only
> "frtroende" and "tro", and I think German has in the
> same way just "Vertrauen" and "Glauben". (By the way:
> the Greek word "pistis", which in the New Testament is
> commonly translated as "faith" or perhaps even
> "belief", is in Langenscheidts Griechisch-Deutsches
> Wrterbuch given the first alternative "Vertrauen" -
> i. e. "confidence"...
>
> Well, exactly (more or less) what is the difference
> between "faith" and "confidence", as both are not
> quite the same thing as "belief"?
>
> Gunnar
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