37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 7

Question 1

ཡུད་ཙམ་
yud tsam

Answer 1

“A short period of time”, “a flash”, “just for a moment” ་ཙམ་ merely /ཡུད moment

Question 2

ཆོས་ཅན་
chos can

Answer 2

n. phenomenon, thing, subject

Question 3

འདོད་ཁམས་
‘dod khams

Answer 3

n. the desire realm, one of the “three realms of samsara”

Question 4

གཟུགས་ཁམས་
gzugs khams

Answer 4

n. the form realm, one of the “three realms of samsara”

Question 5

གཟུགས་མེད་ཁམས་
gzugs med khams

Answer 5

n. the formless realm, one of the “three realms of samsara”

Question 6

ཁམས་གསུམ་
khams gsum

Answer 6

“The three realms (of samsara)”, consisting of the three realms mentioned above.

Question 7

མམ་
mam

Answer 7

and/or particle

Question 8

སྲིད་པ་གསུམ་
srid pa gsum

Answer 8

the three existences

Question 9

ཟག་བཅས་
zag bcas

Answer 9

adj. defiled, tainted; usually meaning, “defiled by samsaric afflictions”.

Question 10

ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་
ji snyed yod pa

Answer 10

“Whatever there is”, “all there is”; literally, “all that can be found.”