37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 3

Question 1

ཟུང་འཇུག་
zung ‘jug

Answer 1

n./adj. unity, unified, unification

Question 2

སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་བདུན་
sum cu so bdun

Answer 2

The number thirty-seven

Question 3

(x) མ་

Answer 3

This syllable is often used to “nominalize” the name of a text so it has the sense of “the text called (x)”.

Question 4

འགྲེལ་པ་
‘grel pa

Answer 4

n. commentary, explanation; this is the noun form of འགྲེལ་བ་

Question 5

འགྲེལ་ - བཀྲལ འགྲེལ དགྲོལ་ ཁྲོལ
‘grel - ppfi

Answer 5

vt. to explain, to elucidate, to lay out

Question 6

གཞུང་
gzhung

Answer 6

n. a textual system, the textual tradition, scripture, government,
something central

Question 7

བུམ་བཟང་
bum bzang

Answer 7

excellent vase. This is short for བུམ་པ་བཟང་པོ་.

Question 8

བུམ་པ་
bum pa

Answer 8

n. vase, pot

Question 9

མཆོད་པར་བརྗོད་པ་
mchod par brjod pa

Answer 9

This is a nominal or verbal phrase meaning, (to make an)
expression of homage, expression of worship, expressions of offering.

Question 10

རྩོམ་པར་དམ་བཅའ་བ་
rtsom par dam bca’ ba

Answer 10

This is a nominal or verbal phrase, (to make a) pledge to compose, pledge of composition.