RY2 Heart Sutra 1

Question 1

བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས
bcom ldan ‘das

Answer 1

Noun. This is a translation of the Sanskrit bhagavan, an epithet of the Buddha.

Question 2

རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་
rgyal po’i khab

Answer 2

The literal translation of the Sanskrit name of a place in current
North India: Rajgir (Skt. rājagṛha, literally meaning “king’s abode/residence”).

Question 3

བྱ་རྒོད་ཕུང་པོ་
bya rgod phung po

Answer 3

The name of a mountain, Vulture’s Peak, located near Rajgir.
Buddha Śākyamuni is believed to have taught what is called, “the second turning of the wheel of dharma”, there, which largely comprise his teachings on emptiness.

Question 4

དགེ་སློང་
dge slong

Answer 4

n. a fully ordained monk (Skt. bhikṣu)

Question 5

ཐབས་ཅིག
thabs cig

Answer 5

“together with (x)”, “in the company of (x)”

Question 6

རྣམ་གྲངས
rnam grangs

Answer 6

Noun. aspects, sort, arrangement; numerous; category, kind, class, enumerated categories; enumeration, series, in turn, kind, category, class, many different varieties of classification / enumeration, way, manner, method, alternative kind, many kinds of; list; alternate ramifications;

Question 7

ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་
ting nge ‘dzin

Answer 7

n. concentration (Skt. samādhi)

Question 8

སྙོམས་པར་བཞུགས་

snyoms par bzhugs

Answer 8

vi. to abide in equilibrium, to abide in meditation

Question 9

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ
byang chub sems dpa’ sems dpa’ chen po

Answer 9

bodhisattva mahasattva

Question 10

སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་
spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug

Answer 10

Avalokiteshvara [p.n. of the Buddha of compassion]; Avalokiteshvara (an alternate name for Kalkī Puṇḍarīka) Full name is བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག

Question 11

འཕགས་པ
‘phags pa

Answer 11

adjective, noble