37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 22

Question 1

ཉོན་མོངས་པ་
nyon mongs pa

Answer 1

This is the same as ཉོན་མོངས: “affliction”, “afflictive emotion”, “disturbing emotion”.

Question 2

ཡི་དབང་དུ་སོང་ནས
yi dbang du song nas

Answer 2

“Having fallen under the power of (x)”, “because of having fallen under the power of (x)”

Question 3

ཅི་མ་རུང་
ci ma rung

Answer 3

This is literally, “How is (x) not suitable?”, meaning, “(x) would be/is good”; ་ཉོན་མོངས་དང་བྲལ་ན་ཅི་མ་རུངmeans, “Wouldn’t it be good if [they were] free from afflictions?” (expressing a wish)

Question 4

སྒོམ་ - བསྒོམས སྒོམ བསྒོམ སྒོམས
sgom ppfi

Answer 4

vt. to cultivate, to bring forth, to meditate, to contemplate

Question 5

ཞེ་སྡང་
zhe sdang

Answer 5

n. anger, aversion, aggression

Question 6

དགྲ་བོ་
dgra bo

Answer 6

enemy,foe. This is the same as དགྲ་.

Question 7

ཐུལ་- ཐུལ་ ཐུལ་ ཐུལ་ ཐུལ་
thul - ppfi

Answer 7

vi. to be tamed, to be softened, to be subdued

Question 8

ཕྱི་རོལ་
phyi rol

Answer 8

adj./n. outer, outside

Question 9

འདུལ་ - བཏུལ འདུལ གཏུལ ཐུལ
‘dul - ppfi

Answer 9

vt. to tame, to subdue, to soften, to vanquish

Question 10

འཕེལ་ - འཕེལ་ འཕེལ་ འཕེལ་
‘phel ppf

Answer 10

vt. to increase in number, amount, or size