RY2 Heart Sutra 2

Question 1

ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་
shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa

Answer 1

n.the transcendent perfection of wisdom,the wisdom pāramitā, transcendent wisdom (Skt. Prajñāpāramitā)

Question 2

སྤྱོད་པ་
spyod pa

Answer 2

n. conduct, practice, behavior, action; vt. as a verb, it means something like, “to engage in a certain type of action or behavior”,
“to ‘course’ in a certain direction”.

Question 3

རྣམ་པར་བལྟ་བ་
rnam par blta ba

Answer 3

vt. to survey, to look at/into, to behold, to consider, to observe
(The རྣམ་པར་ reflects a Sanskrit prefix here.)

Question 4

ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་
phung po lnga

Answer 4

n. the five aggregates, the five skandhas; in Buddhist philosophy,these five are the psychophysical aggregates that make up sentient beings in samsara. They are: 1) form; 2) feeling; 3) perceptions; 4) formative factors; and 5) consciousness.

Question 5

མཐུས་
mthus

Answer 5

n. power

Question 6

ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་
tshe dang ldan pa

Answer 6

Venerable. This means, literally, “endowed with life”; a respectful title meaning “long-lived”, here preceding and applied to the name of Śāriputra, a disciple of the Buddha.

Question 7

ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་
shA ri’i bu

Answer 7

The Tibetan rendering of the Sanskrit name Śāriputra, name of a close disciple of the Buddha.

Question 8

འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་སྨྲས་
‘di skad ces smras

Answer 8

he/she spoke thus.

Question 9

སྨྲ་བ་
smra ba

Answer 9

vt. to speak, to say, to express something in speech

Question 10

རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་
rigs kyi bu

Answer 10

n. a son of the family, a son of the lineage; the “family” or “lineage” refers to that of the Buddha Śākyamuni.