37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 29

Question 1

འདི་དང་ཕྱི་མ
‘di dang phyi ma

Answer 1

This literally means, “this and the next”, referring to this life and
the next life or lives.

Question 2

ཉེས་དམིགས་
nyes dmigs

Answer 2

n. disadvantage, shortcoming, drawback

Question 3

འབྱུང་གནས་
‘byung gnas

Answer 3

This literally means, “place of origin”, meaning, “source”, “origin”.

Question 4

སྤྱི་
spyi

Answer 4

“In general”, “overall”

Question 5

ཞེན་ཆགས་
zhen chags

Answer 5

n. attachment, desire and attachment, fondness, longing

Question 6

བྱེ་བྲག་
bye brag

Answer 6

n./adj. “in particular”, “specific(ally)”

Question 7

ཉེར་མཁོ་
nyer mkho

Answer 7

n. requisites, things that one needs

Question 8

ཡོ་བྱད
yo byad

Answer 8

n, things, articles, materials (stuff)

Question 9

ཡིད་དུ་འོང་བ་
yid du ‘ong ba

Answer 9

adj. pleasant, becoming, delightful, charming, lovely, nice (literally: “coming to the mind”)

Question 10

ཆེ་ཆུང་
che chung

Answer 10

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

Question 11

ཡུན་
yun

Answer 11

n. a period of time; This can be interpreted here as, “a long period
of time”.