37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 10

Question 1

སྦྱོར་བ་
sbyor ba

Answer 1

n. preparation, connection, application

Question 2

བསླབ་བྱ་
bslab bya

Answer 2

n. 1) training 2) advice 3) precepts

Question 3

སློབ་- བསླབས་སློབ་བསླབ་སློབས་
slob - ppfi

Answer 3

vt. 1) to train in, to learn 2) to teach

Question 4

ཐོག་
thog

Answer 4

This is short for ཐོག་མ་ n. beginning, first.

Question 5

བརྩེ་བ་
brtse ba

Answer 5

n. love

Question 6

(x) ཅན་
can

Answer 6

“(someone, or something) having (x)”; e.g. སེམས་ཅན literally means “(something) having a mind”, so comes to mean “sentient
being”.

Question 7

མ་
ma

Answer 7

Here, n. mother; the underlying idea here is that all sentient beings are our “mothers”, because at some point in a past life they
must have been our mothers.

Question 8

སྡུག་- སྡུག་ སྡུག་ སྡུག་
sdug - ppf

Answer 8

vi. 1) to suffer 2) to be attractive/pleasing

Question 9

x) + agentive + ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ་
ci zhig bya

Answer 9

This is an expression literally meaning, “What should one do with (x)”, usually meaning that (x) is useless or improper.

Question 10

མཐའ་ཡས་
mtha’ yas

Answer 10

“Infinite”, “beyond limits”; this term is often used in terms of numbers, in this case referring to སེམས་ཅན