TIB 103 Week 1 Exercises Vocabulary

Question 1

ས་

Answer 1

n. 1) skt. pṛthvī Earth, earth element, ground, basis; 2) skt. bhūmi Ground

Question 2

གཞི་

Answer 2

n. ground or basis; cause; seed; thing or phenomenon

Question 3

ས་གཞི་

Answer 3

n. a ground which is the basis for something: foundation, ground, base

Question 4

སྦྱངས་པ་

Answer 4

v. past of སྦྱོང་བ་ to train in, study, learn; to purge, purify, clear faults

Question 5

ནས་

Answer 5

Abl. Particle “from” (see TIB102, Week 8)

Question 6

རྡེའུ་

Answer 6

n. a general name for any small, discrete thing; a slug of something; stone, pebble

Question 7

ཟུར་

Answer 7

n. corner, angle, margin, border adj tangential

Question 8

འགོད་པ་

Answer 8

v. to arrange, lay out, put in place; set down in writing

Question 9

དགོས་པ་

Answer 9

v. to need, must, should

Question 10

འཆི་བ་

Answer 10

n. death

Question 11

དུས་

Answer 11

n. time

Question 12

ངེས་པ་

Answer 12

v. to be certain, definite; n. certain, definite

Question 13

ཞིང་། ཅིང་

Answer 13

and (see coordinating particle, TIB102, week 12) (not kṣetra)

Question 14

གཞོན་ནུ་

Answer 14

n. skt. kumāra youth

Question 15

འམ་

Answer 15

or (interrogative particle: question, inclusion, exclusion: see TIB103 week 9)

Question 16

རྒན་འཁོགས་

Answer 16

n. old age

Question 17

ཁྱད་པར་

Answer 17

skt. viśeṣa distinction, difference, kind, species

Question 18

རེའུ་

Answer 18

n. kid, baby goat

Question 19

ལུག་

Answer 19

n. sheep

Question 20

ལུག་ཕྲུག་

Answer 20

n. lamb

Question 21

ཁ་དོག་

Answer 21

n. skt. varna color

Question 22

འདྲ་

Answer 22

adj. like, similar, same kind

Question 23

འདྲ་མིན་

Answer 23

“Not the same sort of thing”

Question 24

སྣ་

Answer 24

n. nose

Question 25

སྣ་ཚོགས་

Answer 25

n. adj. skt. viśva variety of things, diverse, various, all kinds of

Question 26

ཤིང་

Answer 26

n. tree

Question 27

ཤིང་ནགས་ཚལ་

Answer 27

n. forest, woods (ཤིང་ནགས་ is abbr. of ཤིང་ནགས་ཚལ་

Question 28

འབྲོས་པ་

Answer 28

v. to flee, to run away, to escape (bros pa is past tense of 'bros pa)

Question 29

མོའུ་འགལ་གྱི་བུ་

Answer 29

skt. maudgalyāputra son of Maudgalyā

Question 30

རིགས་

Answer 30

skt. gotra lineage, line, caste, family

Question 31

རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་

Answer 31

son of the lineage

Question 32

གཞན་པ་

Answer 32

adj. other, another, some other

Question 33

མང་དུ་

Answer 33

adv. phrase many, sometimes "more"

Question 34

བཅོམ་ལྡན་

Answer 34

skt. bhagavat One who has defeated the maras: Buddha

Question 35

བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་

Answer 35

skt. bhagavat more general than bcom ldan but otherwise the same

Question 36

གཟིགས་པ་

Answer 36

v. gzigs is the full form of the imperative, but here it's just a truncated past: to look, to see, to gaze, to witness, to behold

Question 37

སྐྱེས་བུ་

Answer 37

n. skt. puruśa (only used to translate the skt., not used in colloquial): man, person, human, lit. "a child born from karma"

Question 38

ཆུང་བ་

Answer 38

adj. smaller, lesser: comparative form of chung chung; also used to indicate relationship between people in a family: younger, little one (child)

Question 39

ངུ་བ་

Answer 39

v. adj. ngus is past participle of ngu ba: to cry, to weep

Question 40

སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆུང་བ་

Answer 40

lesser person, person of inferior scope

Question 41

འཁོར་བ་

Answer 41

skt. saṃsāra cyclic existence (or verb to turn, spin, etc)

Question 42

བདེ་བ་

Answer 42

skt. sukha but also a wide range of skt. terms beginning wqith su-

Question 43

གཅིག་པུ་

Answer 43

adj. single, alone, sole, singular

Question 44

འཚལ་བ་

Answer 44

v. to do with (other meanings seem to be related to different spellings, see full Illuminator entry)

Question 45

ཏེ་

Answer 45

continuative particle (TIB102 week 11)

Question 46

མཆོད་སྟེགས་

Answer 46

n. offering stand, shelf, table

Question 47

གང་ལ་

Answer 47

question particle + la: where, to whom, to what (TIB 101 week 9 ci, gi, su, gang question words

Question 48

ཡོད་པ་

Answer 48

v. is present, exists; n. existant

Question 49

ཕུར་བུ་

Answer 49

n. a small phurba

Question 50

རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་

Answer 50

Vajrakilaya (Illuminator says rdo rje phur ba is a mispelling of rdo rje phur pa)

Question 51

རང་

Answer 51

pers. pro. self, itself

Question 52

ཡིན་པ་

Answer 52

n. that which is (plus la don "ru" as indentity)

Question 53

འདུ་ཤེས་

Answer 53

n. skt. samjñā perception, cognition (long Illuminator entry)

Question 54

སྐྱེད་པ་

Answer 54

v. produce, generate, create, engender, visualize

Question 55

ཅིག་

Answer 55

imperative particle

Question 56

ཕུག་པ་

Answer 56

n. cave

Question 57

གུ་

Answer 57

3) A suffix added to names meaning a smaller variety of that thing

Question 58

མྱུ་གུ་

Answer 58

n. sprout, but

Question 59

ཆུང་ངུ་

Answer 59

adj. very small; smallest of the small

Question 60

ཤིང་སྡོང་

Answer 60

n. Abbrev. of shing gi sdong po: tree trunk, tree

Question 61

ནུས་པ་

Answer 61

n. potency, capacity, efficaciousness

Question 62

ཆ་

Answer 62

n. piece, part, one item of a pair

Question 63

ཚང་

Answer 63

n. nest, lair, den, house