37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 17

Question 1

བསླབ་བྱ་
bslab bya

Answer 1

n. 1) training 2) advice 3) precepts

Question 2

མཐར་ཐུག་པ་
mthar thug pa

Answer 2

adj. ultimate, final; literally: having touched the limit

Question 3

ཕན་ཚུན་
phan tshun

Answer 3

adj./adv. back and forth, mutually, reciprocally, one with the other, each other

Question 4

སྔོ་ - བསྔོས སྔོ བསྔོ སྔོས
sngo - ppfi

Answer 4

vt. to dedicate

Question 5

ལེན་ - བླངས ལེན་ བླང ལོངས
len - ppfi

Answer 5

vt. to take up, to take on, to pick up, to take, to grab hold of

Question 6

འདུ་ - འདུས འདུ འདུ འདུས
‘du - ppfi

Answer 6

vi. to come together, to congregate, to gather, to meet, to be included within, to be comprised of

Question 7

སྐྱོན་
skyon

Answer 7

n. fault, disadvantage, harm

Question 8

བསྟོད་- བསྟོད་ བསྟོད་ བསྟོད་ བསྟོད་
bstod ppfi

Answer 8

vt. to praise, to extol the virtues of; བསྟོད་པ་ n. means “praise”. This is the opposite of སྨད་པ་: blame.

Question 9

ལྟ་ - བལྟས ལྟ་ བལྟ་ ལྟོས་
lta ppfi

Answer 9

vt. to look, to look into, to examine

Question 10

འདུས་ཤིང་འདུས་པར་
‘dus shing ‘dus par

Answer 10

assembled, gathered. The first འདུས་ functions as a verb, whereas the second འདུས་ is nominalized. When there is only the nominalized form of the verb, this is exactly the sense that it has. It functions both as a verb, and as a noun.