37 Practises of a Bodhisattva 5

Question 1

འཇུག་ - ཞུགས་འཇུག་འཇུག་ཞུགས་
‘jug

Answer 1

vi. to enter into, to engage in, to participate in

Question 2

དངོས་གཞི
dngos gzhi

Answer 2

n. main part, the main part

Question 3

ཆུང་ངུ་
chung ngu

Answer 3

adj. smaller, lesser; This is the comparative form of ཆུང་ཆུང meaning,“small”,or,“little”(ཆུང་ངུ་,འབིང་,and ཆེན་པོ་ go together and mean, “lesser”, “middling”, and, “great”, respectively).

Question 4

ངན་འགྲོ་
ngan ‘gro

Answer 4

This literally means, “bad migrations”, referring to the lower realms in the context of the six or five realms of rebirth in samsara

Question 5

འཇིགས་- འཇིགས་ འཇིགས་ འཇིགས་ འཇིགས་
‘jigs - ppfi

Answer 5

vi. to fear

Question 6

སྤོང་- སྤངས་སྤོང སྤང སྤོངས
spong - ppfi

Answer 6

vt. to abandon, to give up, to discard

Question 7

ཤིན་ཏུ
shin tu

Answer 7

adv. very, extremely

Question 8

བཟོད་དཀའ་
bzod dka’

Answer 8

This means, “difficult to bear”, “hard to endure”

Question 9

ཐུབ་པ་
thub pa

Answer 9

n. sage; this term usually refers to the Buddha.

Question 10

གསུང་- གསུངས་གསུང་གསུང་གསུངས
gsung

Answer 10

[H] form of སྨྲ་བ་ vt. to speak, to teach, to say