determining [mental] factor; determining factor Comment: Determining mental factors are one of six main groupings of mental factors (sems byung, caitta): (1) five omnipresent (kun 'gro, sarvatraga) mental factors; (2) five determining (yul nges, viṣaya-pratiniyama) mental factors; (3) eleven virtuous (dge ba, kuśala) mental factors; (4) six root afflictions (rtsa nyon, mūla-kleśa); (5) twenty secondary afflictions (nye nyong, upakleśa); and (6) four changeable (gzhan 'gyur, anyathābhāva) mental factors.