RY2 JOL5

Question 1

ཡན་ལག་
yan lag

Answer 1

noun. limb, branch, part, member

Question 2

རྒྱས་པ་
rgyas pa

Answer 2

adj. extensive, vast; vi. to increase

Question 3

འོ་ན་
‘o na

Answer 3

however, now then, thus etc. This is a word that often introduces a sentence or statement that
is usually a question or an objection that a reader might have at that point. It often goes together with other words that indicate that a (rhetorical) question is being asked. In this case, they are the words སྙམ་ན་ (which means: “if one thinks”) in line fifty-two.
Everything in between འོ་ན་ and སྙམ་ན་ is the question that’s being asked, or that could be asked.

Question 4

ཐོབ་དགོས་པ་དེ།
thob dgos pa de

Answer 4

Must, needs to be attained. This phrase can be read as ཐོབ་པར་དགོས་པ་དེ་ནི། དགོས་ is an auxiliary verb; the whole phrase is nominalized. Note that we can read a ནི་ after the དེ་

Question 5

བདག་ཅག་
bdag cag

Answer 5

pronoun, us

Question 6

ལ་སོགས་པ་
la sogs pa

Answer 6

This is a very common phrase usually meaning, “etcetera”, or, “and others”. In this case, together with བདག་ཅག་, it has the sense of “us, and others [like us]”.

Question 7

འབད་པ་བྱེད
‘bad pa byed

Answer 7

vi. to make an effort, to apply oneself, to do one’s best, to strive to do something, to try

Question 8

ཅང
cang

Answer 8

This is short for ཅི་ཡང་. Here: “at all”, or “any”, in the context of a question.

Question 9

སྙམ་ན་
snyam na

Answer 9

“if one thinks (x)”.

Question 10

ཅིས་
cis

Answer 10

This is the interrogative particle ཅི་ with an agentive particle. This structure makes a question like, “by/because of what?” or, “in what
way?”, or “how”, or more freely, “why?”