37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 11

Question 1

སྒྲོལ་ - བསྒྲལ སྒྲོལ བསྒྲལ སྒྲོལ
sgrol - ppfi

Answer 1

vt. to liberate, to save, to release

Question 2

ཀུན་རྫོབ་
kun rdzob

Answer 2

This is usually translated as, “relative”, but also has the sense of “concealing”. Usually mentioned in terms of the two truths: the relative and the ultimate. Here two kinds of bodhicitta are described.

Question 3

དོན་དམ་
don dam

Answer 3

n. ultimate, as opposed to relative

Question 4

མ་ལུས་
ma lus

Answer 4

This is short for མ་ལུས་པ་ meaning “none left out”, “without exception”; “all”.

Question 5

བདག་བདེ་འདོད
bdag bde ‘dod

Answer 5

desiring happiness for oneself This can be read as བདག་ལ་བདེ་བ་འདོད་པ་.

Question 6

གཞན་ཕན་སེམས
gzhan phan sems

Answer 6

This can be read as གཞན་ལ་ཕན་པའི་སེམས་, literally meaning, “a
mind of benefiting others”.

Question 7

འཁྲུང་ - འཁྲུངས འཁྲུང་ འཁྲུང་
‘khrung - ppf

Answer 7

[H] form of སྐྱེས་བ vi. to be born

Question 8

ཡང་དག་
yang dag

Answer 8

correctly, authentically, This is short for ཡང་དག་པར

Question 9

རྗེ -བརྗེས རྗེ བརྗེ རྗེས
rje - ppfi

Answer 9

vt. to exchange, to exchange one thing for another, also noun master, lord

Question 10

ཆེ་ཆུང་
che chung

Answer 10

n. size, extent; literally, big and small.