Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 3

Question 1

བཟའ་བ་
bza’ ba

Answer 1

n. food

Question 2

བགོ་བ་
bgo ba

Answer 2

n. clothing; v. 1) to put on (clothes, etc.) 2) to divide

Question 3

མེད་པ་ཞིག་
med pa zhig

Answer 3

Note that the verb མེད་པ་— “to not exist”, or “to not have”—is nominalized here. That means it can also refer to the subject of the verb: “someone who doesn’t have”, or “someone without”.

Question 4

དེས་
des

Answer 4

In this text this combination of དེ་ with the agentive will be used a lot. དེ་ usually refers to a person, and it is not always immediately clear to whom it refers. This usually becomes clear from context. In this case, it refers to Yugpachan.

Question 5

ཁྱིམ་བདག་
khyim bdag

Answer 5

n. householder, a head of a house, a head of a family; this is short forཁྱིམ་གྱི་བདག་པོ་: “owner/keeper/sovereign of the house”.

Question 6

བ་གླང་
ba glang

Answer 6

n. ox, cow, bull, cattle

Question 7

བརྙན་པ་
brnyan pa

Answer 7

Here, this is the past tense of རྙན་པ་ vt. to borrow, to get, to acquire, appropriate.

Question 8

ཉིན་པ་
nyin pa

Answer 8

n. daytime, daylight hours

Question 9

ཁྲིད་པ་
khrid pa

Answer 9

This is the past tense of འཁྲིད་པ vt. 1) to lead, to conduct, to take along 2) to teach; in this case, it has the sense of, “to lead/bring back”.

Question 10

ཁྱིམ་
khyim

Answer 10

n. house, home