Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 8

Question 1

ཞལ་ཆེ་གཅོད
zhal che gcod

Answer 1

vt. to judge, to pass judgment, to decide

Question 2

འོང་བ་
‘ong ba

Answer 2

vi. to come; as an auxiliary verb, it can also give the sense of a future tense, of something that will come to pass, something that will happen.

Question 3

རྩོམ་པ་
rtsom pa

Answer 3

vt. 1) to compose, to write 2) to begin, to start, to commence, to undertake; n. 1) a composition, a text 2) an author 3) a beginning, a start, an undertaking. (Hint: here it goes together with the verb preceding it.)

Question 4

རྩིག་པ་
rtsig pa

Answer 4

n. a wall, a fence

Question 5

(x) གི་སྟེང
gi steng

Answer 5

“On top of (x)”

Question 6

མཆོངས་པ་
mchongs pa

Answer 6

This is the past tense of མཆོང་བ་ vi. to jump, to leap

Question 7

དྲུང་
drung

Answer 7

n. the base, the lower part, the bottom

Question 8

ཐ་ག་པ་
tha ga pa

Answer 8

n. a weaver

Question 9

ཐགས་
thags

Answer 9

n. a web, a texture; This goes together with the verb that follows…

Question 10

འཐག་པ་
‘thag pa

Answer 10

1) to pulverize, to annihilate 2) to make into powder, to grind 3) to knit, to weave, to braid; ཐགས་འཐག་པ་ together means, “to weave”.