RY2 Heart Sutra 9

Question 1

རྣམ་པར་བཞུགས་པ་
rnam par bzhugs pa

Answer 1

dwell,reside.This is an instance where the Sanskrit prefix “vi-” is rendered in Tibetan by “རྣམ་པར་” and should probably not be translated. So, you can simply read this as བཞུགས་པ་.

Question 2

མྱུར་དུ
་ཡང་དག་པར་
myur du
yang dag par

Answer 2

adv. quickly, swiftly, rapidly,
completely

Question 3

བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་ཛོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ
bla na med yang dag par dzogs pa’i byang chub

Answer 3

This is a phrase that refers to complete enlightenment. Literally: “unsurpassed, pure, complete enlightenment”, or “unsurpassed, perfectly complete enlightenment”.

Question 4

མངོན་པར་རྫོགས་པར་སངས་རྒྱས་
mngon par rdzogs par sangs rgyas

Answer 4

Here སངས་རྒྱས་ is used as a verb: “to buddha”, meaning: “to become a buddha”, or “to attain buddhahood”. མངོན་པར་ and རྫོགས་པར are adverbs that mean “manifestly” and “completely” respectively.

Question 5

སྔགས་
sngags

Answer 5

n. mantra

Question 6

རིག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་
rig pa chen po

Answer 6

n. great knowledge

Question 7

མཉམ་པ་
mnyam pa

Answer 7

adj. equal, equivalent, even, balanced, flat

Question 8

རབ་ཏུ་
rab tu

Answer 8

adv. completely, very, perfectly, extremely; this is a translation of the Sanskrit prefix “pra-”.

Question 9

ཞི་བ་
zhi ba

Answer 9

vi. to be pacified, to be calmed down, for a problem to be solved, for something negative to disappear; n. peace, pacification,
tranquility, calm (Skt. śānti)

Question 10

རྫུན་པ་
rdzun pa

Answer 10

n./adj. false, untrue

Question 11

་པས་ན་
pas na

Answer 11

This is the combination of the agentive and ན་ again shows a causal relation, or that what comes after follows from what comes before.