37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 33

Question 1

རྫུ - བརྫུས་ རྫུ བརྫུ རྫུས
rdzu ppfi

Answer 1

vt. to disguise, to pretend, to pose as, to impersonate, to fake

Question 2

ཆོས་མིན་གྱི་བྱ་བ
chos min gyi bya ba

Answer 2

n. non-dharmic activities; meaning, “activities that are not in accord with the dharma.”

Question 3

སྐྱོང་ - བསྐྱངས་སྐྱོང་བསྐྱང་སྐྱོངས་
skyong ppfi

Answer 3

vt. to guard, to look after, to preserve, to nurture, to care for

Question 4

གཉེན་
gnyen

Answer 4

n. someone with whom one is close, a kinsman, a relative, a friend

Question 5

ཆེ་
che

Answer 5

here, together with ཉེས་པ་, this is used as a verb. ཉེས་པ་ཆེ་ together means, “to be a big fault”.

Question 6

སྒོ་གསུམ་
sgo gsum

Answer 6

This literally means, “the three doors” or “the three gates”,
referring to the “gates” of body, speech, and mind, through which one interacts with the world.

Question 7

ཞིབ་ཏུ་
zhib tu

Answer 7

adv. in detail, precisely, minutely

Question 8

ངོས་འཛིན་པ་
ngos ‘dzin pa

Answer 8

vt. to recognize; in the different times, only the འཛིན་ syllable,
functioning as a verbalizer here, changes. In the past tense, it becomes བཟུང

Question 9

རྫོགས་བྱང་
rdzogs byang

Answer 9

n. short for complete enlightenment

Question 10

བསལ་བྱའིི་ཕྱིར
bsal bya’i phyir

Answer 10

in order to eliminate

Question 11

མཐའ་ཡས་
mtha’ yas

Answer 11

adj. infinite, beyond limits

Question 12

འཁོར་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་དག་པའི་ཤེས་རབ
‘khor gsum rnam par dag pa’i she rab

Answer 12

This is a technical term meaning something like, “Wisdom which is completely free from the three spheres”. The three spheres refer to subject, object, and action. The idea behind this term is that in reality, there is no hard distinction between subject, object, and action, and true wisdom means realizing this. In the context of the act of dedication here, it is often explained that the best way of dedicating one’s virtue is to do so through that wisdom, namely, without differentiating between subject, object, and action.

Question 13

བྱང་ཆུབ་བསྔོ་བ་
byang chub bsngo ba

Answer 13

dedicate to enlighenment. This can be read as བྱང་ཆུབ་ཏུ་བསྔོ་བ་

Question 14

དགེའོ་
dge’o

Answer 14

This is an expression often found at the end of texts which is
somewhat like a dedication, meaning something like, “May it be virtuous”.