37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 4

Question 1

ན་མོ་ལོ་ཀེ་ཤྭ་རཱ་ཡ
na mo lo ke sha rA wa

Answer 1

This is a transcription of the Sanskrit, “Namo Lokeṣvarāya”.
“Namo” means something like, “homage to”, or, “salutations to”, and “Lokeṣvarāya” literally means, “to the Lord of the World”. “The Lord of the World” is one of the epithets of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara.

Question 2

གང་གིས་
gang gis

Answer 2

This means here, “the one(s) that”.

Question 3

གཅིག་དུ་
gcig du

Answer 3

Here, this means, “solely”, or, “only”.

Question 4

སྒོ་གསུམ་
sgo gsum

Answer 4

This is literally, “the three doors”, or, “the three gates”, referring to the “gates” of body, speech, and mind.

Question 5

གུས་པ་
gus pa

Answer 5

n./adj. respect, respectful; vi. to be respectful, to pay respect to

Question 6

ཕན་བདེ་
phan bde

Answer 6

This is short for ཕན་པ་དང་བདེ་བ་, meaning, “benefit and wellbeing”.

Question 7

འབྱུང་གནས་
‘byung gnas

Answer 7

This is literally, “place of origin”, meaning, “source”, or “origin”.

Question 8

རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་
rdzogs pa’i sangs rgyas

Answer 8

n. a complete buddha, perfect Buddha

Question 9

སྒྲུབ - བསྒྲུབས སྒྲུབ བསྒྲུབ་ སྒྲུབས
sgrub ppfi

Answer 9

vt. to accomplish, to practice, to establish

Question 10

སྔོན་འགྲོ་
sngon ‘gro

Answer 10

n. preliminary, preliminary section, preliminary practices; literally, “something that goes before”.