37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 14

Question 1

སྤྱོད་འཇུག་
spyod ‘jug

Answer 1

This is the abbreviated name of a text. It is short for བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ meaning, “Entering the Way of the
Bodhisattva”. The author will now quote from this text, to substantiate his point and his explanation, or just to show that the same thing is taught in other texts too.

Question 2

སུ་དག་
su dag

Answer 2

This goes together with ན་ཡང་ and the verbs in the next line: “even if someone does (the verbs)”.

Question 3

འདོད་ཆེན་
‘dod chen

Answer 3

great desire. This is short for འདོད་པ་ཆེན་པོ་. འདོད་པ་ as a noun can mean “desire”.

Question 4

ནོར་
nor

Answer 4

n. wealth, riches

Question 5

འཕྲོག་- ཕྲོགས འཕྲོག་ འཕྲོག་ ཕྲོགས
‘phrog - ppfi

Answer 5

vt. to steal

Question 6

V + ཏུ་འཇུག་
tu ‘jug

Answer 6

Here, འཇུག་ is an auxiliary verb meaning, “to make someone do (the verb)”, or “to force someone to do (the verb)”.

Question 7

ལོངས་སྤྱོད་
longs spyod

Answer 7

n. resources, enjoyments, things that one has

Question 8

དུས་གསུམ་དགེ་བ་
dus gsum dge ba

Answer 8

n. virtue of the three times (past, present, and future)

Question 9

སྔོ་ - བསྔོས སྔོ་ བསྔོ སྔོས
sngo ppfi

Answer 9

vt. to dedicate

Question 10

ཅུང་ཟད་
cung zad

Answer 10

“a little bit”, “just a small amount”, “a trifle”