37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 18

Question 1

(x) གྱི་ཐད་ནས
gyi thad nas

Answer 1

“In the context of (x)”, “from the direction of (x)”, “from the perspective of (x)”eg - ཆོས་དང་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཐད་ནས - in the context of dharma and the world

Question 2

དངོས་སུ་
dngos su

Answer 2

adv. directly, in person, openly, actually, in reality, materially

Question 3

སྨད་ར་གཏོང
smad ra gtong

Answer 3

vt. to denigrate someone, to put someone down, to scold someone

Question 4

རྩུབ་མོ་
rtsub mo

Answer 4

adj./adv. harsh, coarse, rough

Question 5

སྣ་ཚོགས་
sna tshogs

Answer 5

n./adj. a variety, different, various, diverse, all kinds of

Question 6

ཁྲོ་བས་བསླངས
khro bas bslangs

Answer 6

This is the past tense of, “to become angry”.

Question 7

མཚང་འདྲུ་
mtshang ‘dru

Answer 7

expose one’s faults. This is the same as མཚང་ནས་འདྲུ་.

Question 8

གནོད་ལན་བྱེད
gnod lan byed

Answer 8

vt. to return harm (with harm), to get revenge, to engage in “payback”, to get back at someone; note that when verbs like this,
consisting of multiple words and often with a verbalizer like བྱེད་,are modified. For example, if they are negated, then words can be inserted before the verbalizer or the final syllable. E.g. the negation of this is གནོད་ལན་མི་བྱེད་

Question 9

(x) མ་ཟད་
ma zad

Answer 9

“Not only (x) (but also something else)”, “not only that”, “not only is it (x) but it is also…”; literally, this means something like “not exhausted”, “not finished”.

Question 10

སླར་ཡང་
slar yang

Answer 10

“once again”, “once more”, “again”, “later also”, “also again”; here “also” has the sense of, “to do in response”.