Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 13

Question 1

འདྲི་བ་
‘dri ba

Answer 1

vt. to ask (of/about), to ask a question, to enquire

Question 2

རྙེད་པ
rnyed pa

Answer 2

vi. to find, to get, to obtain; n. acquisitions, gain

Question 3

བསྐྱུར་བ་
bskyur ba

Answer 3

This is the past tense of སྐྱུར་བ་ vt. 1) to throw away, to toss off, to fling 2) to give up on, to abandon

Question 4

བརྙས་པ་
brnyas pa

Answer 4

Here, this is used as the past tense of རྙ་བ་ vt. to borrow, to get, to acquire, appropriate.

Question 5

འོ་ན་
‘o na

Answer 5

This leads into a question like, “Well, then…”.

Question 6

ཕྱིར་
phyir

Answer 6

This is close to ཕྱི meaning, “once again later”, “re-”, back”; it can
be read as ཕྱི with a ལ་དོན་.

Question 7

བྱིན་
byin

Answer 7

give. This is the past tense of བྱིན་པ་.

Question 8

མཐོང་བར་བྱིན་
mthong bar byin

Answer 8

“Returning it so that the owner saw it.”

Question 9

ཁས་ནི་མ་བཏང​
khas ni ma btang

Answer 9

ཁ་ with the agentive, followed by མ་བཏང་. Literally, “I didn’t release it by the mouth”, meaning that he didn’t say anything.

Question 10

ལྕེ་
lce

Answer 10

n. tongue