37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 30

Question 1

སྲེལ་- བསྲེལ སྲེལ་ བསྲེལ སྲེལ
srel ppfi

Answer 1

vt. to keep, to look after, to keep up (mainly for possessions)

Question 2

འཕྲལ་དང་འཕྲལ་ལ་
‘phral dang ‘phral la

Answer 2

immediately, intensifier

Question 3

ཇི་ལྟར་སྣང་བ་འདི་དག་

ji ltar snang ba ‘di dag

Answer 3

“All these appearances”, “whatever appears”, “everything that appears”; more literally, “These appearances, however they
appear…”.

Question 4

སྣང་བ་
snang ba

Answer 4

This can also be a noun meaning, “appearance”, “something that appears”, “light, illumination”; here, it can be read as both a noun
and a verb.

Question 5

གདོད་ནས་
gdod nas

Answer 5

This is short for གདོད་མ་ནས་ adj. primordially, from the very beginning.

Question 6

སྤྲོས་པའི་མཐའ་
spros pa’i mtha’

Answer 6

n. conceptual elaborations, constructed limitations, extremes
made by elaboration; this is a term that refers to the limitations of a mind that functions in a dualistic way—with a separation between subject and object. This dualistic mind can only think in terms of things such as coming and going, arising and ceasing, etc. Often when discussing དོན་དམ་བྱང་སེམས་, it is described as
being free from that kind of dualism.

Question 7

གཟུང་འཛིན་མཚན་མ་
gzung ‘dzin mtshan ma

Answer 7

n. the marks or characteristics of apprehender and apprehended.

Question 8

འཛིན་ - བཟུང་འཛིན་གཟུང་ཟུང
‘dzin ppfi

Answer 8

vt. to grasp, to take hold of, to seize onto, to grip, to retain, to hold, to keep

Question 9

ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་
yid la byed

Answer 9

This literally means, “to do in the mind”, referring to mental activity. Here it is a verb. mental engagement; mental application; mental contemplation; mental activity; take to mind; attention

Question 10

སྣ་ཚོགས་
sna tshogs

Answer 10

n./adj. a variety, different, various, diverse, all kinds of