37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 12

Question 1

ཇི་སྙེད་ཅིག་ཡོད་པ
ji snyed cig yod pa

Answer 1

as many as exist, all that possibly exist,
same as ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ

Question 2

རང་གཅེས་འཛིན་
rang gces ‘dzin

Answer 2

n. self-cherishing; literally something like, “holding oneself cherished”.

Question 3

ས་
sa

Answer 3

Here, “state”. This is similar to གོ་འཕང་

Question 4

མཐར་ཐུག་པ་
mthar thug pa

Answer 4

adj. ultimate, final; literally, “having touched the limit.”

Question 5

འཇིག་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་པ་
‘jig rten las ‘das pa

Answer 5

adj. transcendent, beyond-worldly; literally, “transcended the world.
”supramundane”

Question 6

ཕན་བདེ་
phan bde

Answer 6

n. benefit and wellbeing.
short for ཕན་པ་དང་བདེ་བ

Question 7

ཅི་ཡོད་པ
ci yod pa

Answer 7

whatever there is, all there is - similar to ཇི་སྙེད་པ་

Question 8

གཞན་གཅེས་པར་བཟུང
gzhan gces par bzung

Answer 8

cherishing others

Question 9

རང་བས་
rang bas

Answer 9

This is a comparative form meaning, “more than oneself”.

Question 10

གཅེས་པར་བཟུང
gces par bzung

Answer 10

This is the past tense of གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པ་ vt. to cherish.