Basic Sanskrit

Question 1

Supta

Answer 1

On your back

Question 2

Baddha

Answer 2

Bound

Question 3

Kona

Answer 3

Angle

Question 4

Sukha

Answer 4

Ease

Question 5

Asana

Answer 5

Pose

or

Vessel

Question 6

Padma

Answer 6

Lotus

Question 7

Ardha

Answer 7

Half

Question 8

Parivritta

Answer 8

Revolve

Question 9

Paschima

Answer 9

Back

Question 10

Uttana

Answer 10

Intense Stretch

Question 11

Prasarita

Answer 11

Stretched Out

Question 12

Pada

Answer 12

Foot

Question 13

Eka

Answer 13

One

Question 14

Vritti

Answer 14

Whirlpool

Or

Emotions , Thoughts

Question 15

Niroda

Answer 15

Consciousness

Question 16

Ashta

Answer 16

Eight

Question 17

Anga

Answer 17

Limb

Question 18

Nadis

Answer 18

Energy channels

Question 19

Mala

Answer 19

Garland

Or

Prayer beads

Question 20

Shamatha Meditation

Answer 20

“Calm-abiding” Buddhist meditation designed to pacify the mind by sustaining voluntary attention on a single point of concentration

Question 21

Vipassana meditation

Answer 21

“insight” a culminating meditation in which Awareness rests in its innate stillness, silence and spaciousness

Question 22

Dukha

Answer 22

Suffering

Question 23

Sunyata

Answer 23

Emptiness

Question 24

Samskara

Answer 24

A psychic scarring caused by habitual tendencies

Question 25

Prajna

Answer 25

Wisdom, which allows us to see the truth by cultivating enlightened awareness and knowledge

Question 26

Saha

Answer 26

Impossible to grasp

Or

Insubstantial

Question 27

Samsara

Answer 27

Wheel of suffering that we perpetuate by doing the same thing time and time again

Or

Perpetual wandering

Question 28

Bardo

Answer 28

Intermediate stages after death

Question 29

Dharmakaya

Answer 29

Absolute reality

Question 30

Karma

Answer 30

Action and reaction

Question 31

Anaya

Answer 31

Egolessness

Or

No self

Question 32

Giving

Answer 32

Dana

Question 33

Hands

Answer 33

Asta