Chapter 15

Question 1

སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་

Answer 1

going for refuge

Question 2

སྐྱབས་

Answer 2

refuge

Question 3

དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་

Answer 3

Three Jewels

Question 4

ཁང་པ་

Answer 4

house, building

Question 5

གྲོང་ཁྱེར་

Answer 5

city

Question 6

དགེ་བསྙེན་

Answer 6

laymen

Question 7

དགེ་བསྙེན་མ་

Answer 7

laywomen

Question 8

དགེ་འདུན་

Answer 8

spiritual community [Skt. sangha]

Question 9

དགེ་ཚུལ་

Answer 9

novice monks

Question 10

དགེ་ཚུལ་མ་

Answer 10

novice nuns

Question 11

དགེ་སློང་

Answer 11

monks

Question 12

དགེ་སློང་མ་

Answer 12

nuns

Question 13

དགེ་སློབ་མ་

Answer 13

probationary nuns [Skt. siksamana]

Question 14

སྒོམ་པ་

Answer 14

meditation, cultivation, familiarization [Skt. bhavana]

Question 15

བསྒོམ་པ་

Answer 15

meditation, cultivation

[alt. of སྒོམ་པ་]

Question 16

ངོས་

Answer 16

side; surface; slope [of a mountain]

Question 17

སྔགས་

Answer 17

mantra

Question 18

ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་

Answer 18

Skt. dharmadhātu. sphere of truth, expanse of reality

Question 19

ཆོས་ཉིད་

Answer 19

Skt. dharmatā, reality, nature

Question 20

མཉན་ཡོད་

Answer 20

Sharvasti [Śrāvastī] (a city where Buddha taught)

Question 21

མཉམ་པར་བཞག་པ་

Answer 21

formal meditative equipoise, resting in evenness equanimity [Skt. samādhi]

Question 22

སྙིང་རྗེ་

Answer 22

compassion, Skt. karuna

Question 23

སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་

Answer 23

meditative absorption, rest in equanimity [Skt. samāpatti] often syn. of samādhi

Question 24

ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་

Answer 24

Skt. samādhi, concentration,

Question 25

བཏང་སྙོམས་

Answer 25

equanimity, even mindedness

Question 26

ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་

Answer 26

Prasaṅgika; reductio ad absurdum of Madhyamaka, founded by Chandrakirti; consequence

Question 27

ཐལ་བ་

Answer 27

Skt. prasanga, dialectical consequence; beyond mark/measure; dust, cremation ashes

Question 28

ཐོས་པ་

Answer 28

hearing, listening

Question 29

དག་ཞིང་

Answer 29

pure land

Question 30

དུ་བ་

Answer 30

smoke

Question 31

སྡོམ་པ་

Answer 31

vow, precept

Question 32

ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་

Answer 32

Skt. paramita

Question 33

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་

Answer 33

bodhisattva

Question 34

བྱམས་པ་

Answer 34

Loving-kindness, [Pali: metta]

Question 35

དབུས་

Answer 35

U [central Tibet]

Question 36

དབྱིངས་

Answer 36

sphere, expanse, realm Skt. dhatu

Question 37

གཙང་

Answer 37

Dzang [west central Tibet]

Question 38

རྩེ་

Answer 38

point

Question 39

རྩོལ་བ་

Answer 39

effort

Question 40

ཚད་མ་

Answer 40

valid cognition

Question 41

ཚད་མེད་

Answer 41

immeasurable

Question 42

ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་

Answer 42

Skt. śila, ethics

Question 43

ཞི་གནས་

Answer 43

calm abiding [Skt. śamatha]

Question 44

ཝ་ར་ན་སི་

Answer 44

Varanasi (city in India)

Question 45

ཡུན་རིང་

Answer 45

long time, perpetual

Question 46

རང་བཞིན་

Answer 46

Skt. svabhava, essential nature, inherent nature

Question 47

ཤེས་རབ་

Answer 47

wisdom, prajña

Question 48

སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ་

Answer 48

individual liberation [Skt pratimoksha]

Question 49

བསམ་གཏན་

Answer 49

Skt. dhyāna, concentration

Question 50

བསམ་པ་

Answer 50

thought, thinking, reflection

Question 51

བསླབ་པ་

Answer 51

training, moral training, education

Question 52

ལྷག་མཐོང་

Answer 52

Skt. vipaśyanā; insight, clear seeing