37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 2

Question 1

བསྟན་བཅོས་
bstan bcos

Answer 1

n. treatise (Skt. śāstra); a text regarded as authoritative

Question 2

རང་བཞིན་
rang bzhin

Answer 2

n. self-nature, nature, inherent nature, self-existence (Skt. svabhāva)

Question 3

དངོས་གཞི
dngos gzhi

Answer 3

n. main part, the main part

Question 4

སྐྱེས་བུ
skyes bu

Answer 4

n. being, person

Question 5

གསུང་ - གསུངས་གསུང་གསུང་གསུངས་
gsung - ppfi

Answer 5

[H] of སྨྲ་བ་ vt. to speak, to teach, to say

Question 6

འབྲིང་
‘bring

Answer 6

adj. middling

Question 7

དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བ་
don du gnyer ba

Answer 7

vt. to strive for, to seek for

Question 8

བཞིན་
bzhin

Answer 8

When following a noun, it means “like”, “as”, “just as”. When following a verb, it means “while the verb happens”.

Question 9

འཇིག་ - ཇིག འཇིག འཇིག
‘jig - ppf

Answer 9

vi. to perish, to fall apart, to disintegrate

Question 10

གོ་འཕང་
go ‘phang

Answer 10

n. state, status, level