37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 21

Question 1

གནོད་ལན་བྱེད
gnod lan byed

Answer 1

vt. to return harm (with harm), to get revenge, to engage in “payback”, to get back at someone. When this verb is put in a different tense, only the verbalizer བྱེད་ changes.

Question 2

ནད་
nad

Answer 2

n. sickness, disease

Question 3

གདོན་
gdon

Answer 3

n. a name for negative influences that cause trouble, these can consist of evil spirits. It is thought that these kinds of influences can cause different kinds of harm, including mental harm, which is implied in this context.

Question 4

སྨྱོན་པ་
smyon pa

Answer 4

n./adj. mad, crazy, insane, temporarily driven insane/crazy

Question 5

མ་རྒན་
ma rgan

Answer 5

n. old mother; here taken literally.

Question 6

གནོད་པ་བྱེད
gnod pa byed

Answer 6

vt. to do harm, to inflict harm, to cause harm

Question 7

དང་བྲལ་ནས་
dang bral nas

Answer 7

“May (1) be free from (2)”; the particle ན་ is sometimes used in this way to formulate a wish.

Question 8

སྙམ་དུ་
snyam du

Answer 8

“Thinking (x)”

Question 9

བརྩེ་བ་པར་བྱེད
brtse bar byed

Answer 9

This is the same as བརྩེ་བ་ as a verb.
noun: mercy; love; kindness
verb: feel mercy; pity

Question 10

གནོད་བྱེད
gnod byed

Answer 10

This is a noun, and where གནོད་བྱ means, “the object of harm”, གནོད་བྱེད refers to the agent or the action, so, “the doer of harm”, or, “the doing of harm”, or “harm-doer”.