37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 20

Question 1

ནད་ཀྱིས་བཏབ་པ་
nad kyis btab pa

Answer 1

“struck by disease”, “sick”

Question 2

ལྷག་པར་
lhag par

Answer 2

adj. very much, further, extremely, exceedingly, even more, more, especially

Question 3

བརྩེ་བ་
brtse ba

Answer 3

This is used here as a verb vt. to love.

Question 4

ཕར་
phar

Answer 4

“Over there” (indicating a place far away), “in that direction”, “to another”, “for someone else”; indicates a direction away from
something or the speaker; the opposite of ཚུར་, which means, “in this direction”, or something close to the speaker.

Question 5

ཟང་ཟིང་
zang zing

Answer 5

n. material things, objects, worldly things

Question 6

*(x) ཡི་སྒོ་ནས་
yi sgo nas
གྱི་སྒོ་ནས
gyi sgo nas

Answer 6

“In terms of (x)”, “by (x)”, “through (x)”

Question 7

བསྐྱབས་
bskyabs

Answer 7

protected. This is similar to བསྐྱངས་; this might be a typo in the text, as the root verse and the commentary have different spellings for what one would think should be the same word. Also, in terms of typos, a ང་ can be easily mistaken for a བ་ because the letters look
similar. In any case, the meanings of the two words are similar.

Question 8

གསུམ་ཀ་
gsum ka

Answer 8

“The three”, “a group of three”, “all three”

Question 9

གནོད་པ་འཁྱོལ་བ་

gnod pa ‘khyol ba

Answer 9

vi. for harm to be inflicted; here, གནོད་པ་ཅི་འཁྱོལ has the sense of, “harm being inflicted in any kind of way”, or, “in all kinds of ways”.

Question 10

ཁྲོ་འཁོན
khro ‘khon

Answer 10

This is short for ཁྲོ་བ་དང་འཁོན་པ་. ཁྲོ་བ་ means, “’hot’ anger”, anger that shows or expresses itself. འཁོན་པ is, “’cold’ anger”, that is mainly inside. This is often translated with, “holding a grudge”, or “animosity”.