Chapter 11 Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives & Particles

Question 1

སྐྱོན་

Answer 1

defect, fault

Question 2

མཁས་པ་

Answer 2

expert, scholar, pandita

Question 3

སྒྲ་བཤད་

Answer 3

explanation of words (etymology)

Question 4

བཅུད

Answer 4

vital essence, useful power; juice, sap

Question 5

འཆད་པ་པོ་

Answer 5

explainer

Question 6

འཇིག་རྟེན་

Answer 6

the external, physical world

Question 7

སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་

Answer 7

emptiness [Skt. shunyata]

Question 8

དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་

Answer 8

thatness, suchness, reality [Skt. tattva] (4 syllables)

Question 9

དེ་ཉིད་

Answer 9

thatness, suchness, reality [Skt. tattva] (2 syllables)

Question 10

བདག་ཉིད་

Answer 10

I, identity, “atman itself”

Question 11

སྣོད་

Answer 11

vessel, receptacle

Question 12

འཕགས་པ་

Answer 12

superior, noble one [Skt. ārya]

Question 13

བདེ་བ་

Answer 13

bliss, happiness [Skt. sukha]

Question 14

དབུ་མ་པ་

Answer 14

Mādhyamika

Question 15

བྱང་ཆུབ་

Answer 15

englightenment [Skt. bodhi]

Question 16

ཚེ་དཔག་མེད་

Answer 16

Amitāyus

Question 17

ཤེས་པ་པོ་

Answer 17

knower

Question 18

སོ་སོའི་སྐྱེ་བོ

Answer 18

ordinary person

Question 19

གསེར་

Answer 19

gold

Question 20

མཁས་

Answer 20

be skilled [in]

Question 21

རྒྱས་

Answer 21

bloom, to flourish, to be vigourous

Question 22

འཆད་

Answer 22

explain, present; to cut off, severed (ropes, relations, etc)

Question 23

བཤད་

Answer 23

explained, will explain [past & future of འཆད་]

Question 24

སངས་

Answer 24

be dispelled, be purified

Question 25

ཁོ་ན་

Answer 25

only, merely

Question 26

སྟོང་པ་

Answer 26

is empty

Question 27

ནང་

Answer 27

internal

Question 28

ཕྱི་

Answer 28

external

Question 29

ཙམ་

Answer 29

only, mere

Question 30

*ཉིད་

Answer 30

-hood, -ness