37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 31

Question 1

རྨི་ལམ་
rmi lam

Answer 1

n. dream

Question 2

འཆི་ - ཤི འཆི་ འཆི་
‘chi ppf

Answer 2

vi. to die, for life to end, for something to run out or end

Question 3

རྨི་ལམ་བུ་ཤི་ལྟར་
rmi lam bu shi ltar

Answer 3

like the death of a son in a dream
This can be read as short for རྨི་ལམ་གྱི་ནང་ལ་རང་གི་བུ་ཤི་བ་ལྟར་ཡིན་.

Question 4

འཁྲུལ་སྣང་
‘khrul snang

Answer 4

This is short for འཁྲུལ་པའི་སྣང་བ་ n. confused appearances, appearances of confusion, confusion’s appearances.

Question 5

འཁྲུལ་པ་
‘khrul pa

Answer 5

n. confusion, mistake, confusing one thing for something else

Question 6

བདེན་པ་
bden pa

Answer 6

n./adj. truth, true, real

Question 7

ཨ་ཐང་ཆད་པ་
a thang chad pa

Answer 7

This is an expression meaning something like, “how tiresome!” The thing that is tiresome is marked by the agentive particle.

Question 8

མི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་
mi mthun rkyen

Answer 8

n. non-conducive circumstances, unfavorable conditions; this has the connotation of, “things that one doesn’t like”, or, “things that
are not conducive to one’s aims.”

Question 9

འཕྲད་
‘phrad

Answer 9

vi. to meet with; that which is met with is marked by དང་

Question 10

རྒྱུན་དུ་
rgyun du

Answer 10

adv. continuously, regularly

Question 11

དེ་དག་གི་བསླབ་བྱ་ལ་བསླབ་པ་ལ
de dag gi bslab bya la bslab pa la

Answer 11

training in the practise of those