Four Seals Vocabulary

Question 1

འདུ་བྱེད་

Answer 1

composed phenomena, compound phenomena, created phenomena

Question 2

ཐམས་ཅད་

Answer 2

all

Question 3

མི་རྟག་པ་

Answer 3

impermanent (non-static)

Question 4

ཅིང༌, ཞིང་

Answer 4

and

Question 5

ཟག་བཅས་

Answer 5

contaminated

Question 6

སྡུག་བསྔལ་

Answer 6

suffering, duḥkha

Question 7

ཆོས་

Answer 7

dharma, phenomenon (many meanings, also attribute, quality, topic, doctrine, religion, practice, and way)//

Question 8

རྣམས་

Answer 8

pluralizer, all, everything

Question 9

སྟོང་

Answer 9

empty

Question 10

བདག་མེད་པ་

Answer 10

selfless

Question 11

མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་

Answer 11

nirvāṇa, liberation [sorrow-from-passed]

Question 12

ཞི་བ་

Answer 12

pacification, quiescence, peace

Question 13

འོ་

Answer 13

termination particle (not lexical meaning, purely syntactic, like a period)

Question 14

ཕྱག་རྒྱ་

Answer 14

Tibetan translation for mudrā. This is a rich word in Tibetan that has a lot of meanings and connotations.

Question 15

ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་

Answer 15

mahā-mudrā) or The Great Seal. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ can also refer to a sexual consort used in tantric practice, both visualized and actual, as well as a hand gesture and the bodily form of a tantric deity.