37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 19

Question 1

དྲིན་ཆེ་བ
drin che ba

Answer 1

adj. very kind

Question 2

སྨད་པ་
smad pa

Answer 2

n. blame, putting someone down, verbal abuse; as a verb, past tense of སྨྲོད་པ་

Question 3

སྨོད་ - སྨད སྨོད སྨད སྨོད
smod ppfi

Answer 3

vt. to belittle someone, to put someone down, to use (harsh) words to belittle someone, to blame someone, to condemn someone, to slander

Question 4

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

Answer 4

vt. to praise, to extol the virtues of; བསྟོད་པ་ n. means, “praise”,

Question 5

དགར་
dgar

Answer 5

pleased, This could be read as short for དགའ་བ་ལ་

Question 6

དགའ་བ
dga’ ba

Answer 6

n. joy, something to be happy about

Question 7

ཆགས་སྡང་
chags sdang

Answer 7

This is short for ཆགས་པ་དང་སྡང་བ་ n. attachment and aversion; here, this is verbalized with the future form of the verb བྱེད་པ་,
which then forms the meaning, “to be attached or to have aversion”, literally, “to ‘do’ attachment and aversion”.

Question 8

གཅེས་པ་
gces pa

Answer 8

v. to hold to something as being special, to cherish; n. dear, something cherished; this is the same word found in གཅེས་པར་འཛན་པ་ vt. to cherish.

Question 9

སྐྱོང་ - བསྐྱངས སྐྱོང བསྐྱང སྐྱོངས
skyong ppfi

Answer 9

vt. to guard, to look after, to preserve, to nurture, to care for; གཅེས་པར་བསྐྱངས་པ་ together has the sense of, “to look after something or
someone that one holds dear”.

Question 10

ལྟ་ - བལྟས་ ལྟ་ བལྟ་ ལྟོས་
lta ppfi

Answer 10

vt. to look, to look into, to examine