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བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་
CHOME DEN DAY
(bcom ldan ‘das)
Bhagavat (skt.), transcendent victor. blessed one (a common epithet for the Buddha)
བཆོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་
CHOM DEN DAY MA
(bcom ldan ‘das ma)
Bhagavati (skt.), female version of bcom ldan ‘das (see card #1)
ཤས་རབ་
SHAY ROB
(shes rab)
Wisdom, insight, knowledge, intelligence, prajna (skt.)
ཕ་རོལ་
P’A RÖL
(pha rol)
The other (far) side, the other (far) shore, the next life
ཕྱིན་པ་
CHIN PA
(phyin pa)
Past tense of ‘gro ba; gone, went
སྙིང་པོ་
NYING PO
(snying po)
Essence, core, quintessence, heart
ཞེས་བྱ་བ་
ZHAY JAH WA
(zhes bya ba)
To be named, called, known as, that which is called
བཞུགས་
ZHOOK
(bzhugs)
Past, present and future tense of bzhugs pa; to exist, to be present, to dwell, to sit, to reside
རྒྱ་གར་
GYA GAR
(rgya gar)
India
སྐད་
KAY
(skad)
Language, speech dialect
བྷ་ག་ཝ་ཏི་
BA GA WA TEE
(bha ga wa it)
Skt. bhagavati (equivalent of bcom ldan ‘das ma; see card #2)
པྲ་ཛྙཱ་
PRAJ NYA
(pra dzny’a)
Skt. prajna (equivalent of shes rab; see card #3)
པ་ར་མི་ཏཱ་
PA RĀ MEE TA
(pa ra mi t’a)
Skt. paramita, perfection, transcendent (equivalent of pha rol tu phyin pa)
ཧྲི་ད་ཡ་
HRI DA YA
(hri da ya)
Skt. hridaya (equivalent of snying po; see card #6)
བོད་
BÖ
(bod)
Tibet
ཕྱག་འཚལ་
CH’AK TS’EL
(phyag ‘tshal)
To pay homage, to prostrate; homage, obeisance, prostration
འདི་
DEE
(‘di)
This
བདག་
DAHK
(bdag)
Self, I; lord, master, owner
ཐོས་པ་
T’Ö PA
(thos pa)
Past, present future tense of thos pa; to hear, to hear of; hearing
དུས་
DÜ
(dus)
Time
ན་
NA
(na)
If, at, on, in; a la dön particle
རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་
GYEL POY K’OB
(rgyal po’i khab)
City of Rajagriha, present day Rajgir in India
བྱ་རྒོད་ཕུང་པོའི་རི་
JA GÖ P’OONG P’OY REE
(bya rgod phung po’i ri)
Vulture Peak Mountain
བྱ་རྒོད་
JA GÖ
(bya rgod)
Vulture
ཕུང་པོ་
P’OONG PO
(phung po)
Pile, heap, mound, hill; corpse; aggregate, component; skhanda (skt.)
རི་
REE
(ri)
Mountain
དགེ་སློང་
GAY LOHNG
(dge slong)
Fully ordained monk, bhikshu (skt.)
དགེ་འདུན་
GEN DÜN
(dge ‘dun)
Sangha (skt.), community, assembly
ཆེན་པོ་
CH’EN PO
(chen po)
Big, great
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་
JONG CH’OOB SEM PA
(byang chub sems dpa’)
Bodhisattva (skt.)
བྱང་ཆུབ་
JONG CH’OOB
(byang chub)
Enlightenment
སེམས་
SEM
(sems)
Mind
དཔའ་
PA
(dpa’)
Brave, heroic, courageous; hero, brave person
ཚེ་
TS’AY
(tshe)
Time, life, point
ཟབ་མོ་
ZAB MO
(zab mo)
Profound, deep
སྣང་བ་
NANG WA
(snang ba)
Past, present, future tense of snang ba: to appear, illuminate; appearance, illumination
གཅིག་
CHEEK
(gcig)
One
ཐབས་གཅིག་ཏུ་
T’OB CHEEK TOO
(thabs gcig tu)
Together with
ཆོས་
CH’Ö
(chos)
Dharma (skt.) phenomenon
རྣམ་གྲངས་
NAM DRANG
(rnam grangs)
Division, aspect, enumeration
ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་
TING NGAY DZIN
(ting nge ‘dzin)
Samadhi (skt.), concentration, meditative absorbtion
སྙོམས་པ་
NYOME PA
(snyoms pa)
Equal, even, impartial
འཕགས་པ་
P’AK PA
(‘phags pa)
Superior, exalted, noble, arya (skt.)
སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་
CHEN RAY ZEE WONG CH’OOK
(spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug)
Avalokiteshvara (skt.) The bodhisattva of compassion
སྤྱོད་པ་
CHÖ PA
(spyod pa)
Action, conduct, behavior, practice; to engage in, to do, to practice
རྣམ་པར་
NAM PAR
(rnam par)
Completely, fully, thoroughly
བལྟ་
TA
(blta)
Future tense of lta ba; to look, to view, to regard; to look after
ལྔ་པོ་
NGA PO
(lnga po)
The five (as a group)
དག་
DOK
dag
ཡང་
YONG
(yang)
Again, also, even though
རང་བཞིན་
RANG ZHIN
(rang bzhin)
Nature
སྟོང་པ་
TOHNG PA
(stong pa)
Empty, to be empty
དེ་ནས་
DAY NAY
(de nas)
Then
སངས་རྒྱས་
SONG GYAY
(sangs rgyas)
Buddha (skt.)
མཐུ་
T’OO
(mthu)
Power, might, force
ལྡན་པ་
DEN PA
(ldan pa)
Endowed with, possessing
ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་
SHA REE BOO
(Sh’a ri’i bu)
Shariputra, one of the Buddha’s chief disciples known for his wisdom
སྨྲས་
MAY
(smras)
Past tense of smra ba: said, uttered, spoke, preached, told
རིགས་
RIK
(rigs)
Family, clan, lineage, caste; kind, type, variety
བུ་
BOO
(bu)
Son, boy, child
བུ་མོ་
BOO MO
(bu mo)
Daughter, girl
གང་ལ་ལ་
GONG LA LA
(gang la la)
Someone, anyone, the one
སྤྱད་པ་
CHAY PA
(spyad pa)
Past and future tense of spyod pa: to engage in, to act, to do
འདོད་པ་
DÖ PA
(‘dod pa)
Past and future tense of ‘dod pa: to want, to wish, to desire; desire, wanting; desires, wishes, wants
ཇི་ལྟཏ་
JEE TAR
(ji ltar)
How, in what way, however, just like
བསླབ་པ་
LOP PA
(bslab pa)
Future tense of slob pa: to learn, to study, to teach
ཤཱ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ་
SHA RA DA TEE BOO
(sh’a ra dwa ti’i bu)
Another name for Shariputra
ཡང་དཀ་པ་
YONG DAK PA
(yang dag pa)
True, genuine, authentic, correct; very pure
རྗེས་
JAY
(rjes)
Later, after, following
གཟུགས་
ZOOK
(gzugs)
Form, body
སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་
TOHNG PA NYEE
(stong pa nyid)
Emptiness, Shunyata (skt.)
གཞན་
ZHEN
(gzhan)
Other
ཡིན་
YIN
(yin)
To be, is, are
དེ་བཞིན་དུ་
DAY ZHIN DOO
(de bzhin du)
Like that, similarly, thus
ཚོར་བ་
TS’OR WA
(tshor ba)
Feeling, sensation; to feel, to sense
དང་
DONG
(dang)
And