37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 9

Question 1

འཆིང་བ་
‘ching ba

Answer 1

n. bonds, fetters, bondage

Question 2

མཐའ་དག་
mtha’ dag

Answer 2

adj. all of it, entirely, all; literally, “the limits”.

Question 3

གྲོལ གྲོལ གྲོལ
grol - ppf

Answer 3

vi. to be liberated, to become released

Question 4

ཤིན་ཏུ་
shin tu

Answer 4

adj./adv. very, extremely

Question 5

གལ་ཆེན་པོ་
gal chen po

Answer 5

adj. important; here གལ་ཆེ་ is the adjective used as a verb meaning, “to be important”.

Question 6

སྒོམ་པ - བསྒོམས སྒོམ བསྒོམ སྒོམས
sgom pa - ppfi

Answer 6

vt. to cultivate, to meditate

Question 7

སྲིད་ཞིའི་མཐའ
srid zhi’i mtha’

Answer 7

n. the extremes of existence and peace; this refers to two states
that are not the final liberation or enlightenment of a buddha. The first refers to samsara and the second refers to a peaceful kind of liberation.

Question 8

བསམ་པ་
bsam pa

Answer 8

n. thought, intention; see also the verb form below.

Question 9

སེམས - བསམས སེམས བསམ སོམས
sems - ppfi

Answer 9

vt. to think, to think about, to consider; note that སམེས་ as a noun
means, “mind”.

Question 10

བྱང་ཆུབ་མཆོག་དུ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ
byang chub mchog du sems bskyed pa

Answer 10

“to generate a mind of supreme enlightenment”, or, “to direct one’s mind towards supreme enlightenment.”.