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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
འདུ་ཤེས་
DOO SHAY
(‘du shes)
Perception, cognition, conception
འདུ་བྱེད་
DOO JAY
(‘du byed)
Mental formation, formative forces, volition
རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་
NAM PAR SHAY PA
(rnam par shes pa)
Conciousness
ལྟ་བ་
TA WA
(lta ba)
Present tense of lta ba: to look, to watch, to regard; to look after
དེ་ལྟ་བས་ན་
DAY TA WAY NA
(de lta bas na)
therefore, for this reason, consequently
ཐམས་ཅད་
T’AM CHAY
(thams cad)
All, every
མཚན་ཉིད་
TS’EN NYEE
(mtshan nyid)
Characteristic, attribute, distinguishing feature
མེད་པ་
MAY PA
(med pa)
To be lacking, to not exist, -less, without
སྐྱེས་པ་
KYAY PA
(skyes pa)
Past tense of skye ba: to be born, to arise, to be produced; a being, man
འགགས་པ་
GOK PA
(‘gags pa)
Past of ‘gag pa: to be stopped, destroyed, ceased
དྲི་མ་
DREE MA
(dri ma)
Smell, odor, scent, stink, impurity, destroyed, ceased
བྲལ་བ་
DREL WA
(bral ba)
Past tense of ‘bral ba: to be free from, to be separate from
བྲི་བ་
DREE WA
(bri ba)
Past tense of ‘bri ba: to diminish, to decrease; deficiency, depletion
གང་བ་
GONG WA
(gang ba)
Past, present and future tense of gang ba: to be(come) full
མིག་
MEEK
(mig)
Eye
རྣ་བ་
NA WA
(rna ba)
Ear
སྣ་
NA
(sna)
Nose
ལྕེ་
CHAY
(lce)
Tongue
ལུས་
LÜ
(lus)
Body
ཡིད་
YEE
(yid)
Mind
སྒྲ་
DRA
(sgra)
Sound
དྲི་
DREE
(dri)
Smell
རོ་
RO
(ro)
Taste, flavor; corpse
རེག་བྱ་
REK JA
(reg bya)
Touchable, object of touch
ཁམས་
K’OM
(khams)
Element; basis; realm; region of Eastern Tibet
ནས་
NAY
(nas)
From
བར་
BAR
(bar)
Middle, between; until, up until
མ་རིག་པ་
MA RIK PA
(ma rig pa)
Ignorance, unawareness
རིག་པ་
RIK PA
(rig pa)
To know, to see, to understand
ཟད་པ་
ZAY PA
(zad pa)
Exhaustion, completing of, finish; past tense of ‘dzad pa: to exhaust, to use up; to be spent, to be finished
རྒ་
GA
(rga)
Old age, aging
ཤི་
SHEE
(shi)
Death, dying
སྡུག་བསྔལ་བ་
DOOK NGEL WA
(sdug bsngal ba)
Suffering, unsatisfactoriness
ཀུན་འབྱུང་བ་
KÜN JOONG WA
(kun ‘byung ba)
Origin(ation), source
འགོག་པ་
GOKE PA
(‘gog pa)
Present tense of ‘gog pa: to block, hinder, to make cease; cessation
ལམ་
LAM
(lam)
Path, road
ཡེ་ཤེས་
YAY SHAY
(ye shes)
Jnana (skt.), primordial wisdom, timeless awareness
ཐོབ་པ་
T’OP PA
(thob pa)
Past tense of ‘thob pa: to acquire, to find, to gain, to win, to achieve, to attain, to obtain
ཕྱིར་
CH’EER
(phyir)
Because of, since, as a result of; for the sake of, with regard to; back; outside
བརྟེན་ཅིང་
TEN CHING
(brten cing)
To rely on, to depend on, relying on
གནས་
NAY
(gnas)
Past, present, and future tense of gnas pa: to dwell, to be present, to abide; place dwelling, site
སྒྲིབ་པ་
DRIP PA
(sgrib pa)
Obscuration, covering, veil; present tense of sgrip pa: to obscure, to veil
སྐྲག་པ་
TRAK PA
(skrag pa)
Frightful, scary; to be scared; past, present, and future tense of skrag pa: frightened, afraid
ཅི་
CHEE
(ci)
What
ལོག་
LOKE
(log)
Past, present, and future tense of log pa: to return, turn around; opposite, wrong, perverted
ཤིན་ཏུ་
SHIN TOO
(shin tu)
Very
འདས་
DAY
(‘das)
Past tense of ‘da ba: to pass (time); to surpass, to trancend
མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་
NYA NGEN LAY DAY PA
(mya ngan las ‘das pa)
Nirvana (skt.), transcendence of misery
མཐར་
T’AR
(mthar)
End, extreme, limit; to end, to conclude, in the end, finally
མཐར་ཕྱིན་
T’AR CHIN
(mthar phyin)
Finalized, completed (gone to the end)
བླ་ན་མེད་པ་
LA NA MAY PA
(bla na med pa)
Unsurpassed, unexcelled, supreme, highest
རྫོགས་པ་
DZOKE PA
(rdzogs pa)
Past, present, and future tense of rdzogs pa: to be complete, to be perfected, to be finished; completion, perfection
མངོན་པ་
NGÖN PA
(mngon pa)
Past, present, and future tense of mngon pa: to become visible, evident, to appear, to arise; visible, evident, clear
སྔགས་
NGAK
(sngags)
Mantra
མཉམ་པ་
NYAM PA
(mnyam pa)
Equality; to be equal, the same, alike
རབ་ཏུ་
ROB TOO
(rab tu)
Fully, utterly, extremely
ཞི་བ་
ZHEE WA
(zhi ba)
Past, present, and future tense of zhi ba: to pacify, to calm; peace tranquility
བྱེད་པ་
JAY PA
(byed pa)
Present tense of byed pa: to do, to make to create
བརྫུན་པ་
DZÜN PA
(brdzun pa)
False, lie
བདེན་པ་
DEN PA
(bden pa)
True, truth
དེ་ལྟར་
DAY TAR
(de ltar)
Thus, like that
ལྟར་
TAR
(ltar)
Like, similar
བཞེངས་
ZHENG
(bzhengs)
Past, present, and future of bzhengs pa: to construct, build, create; to erect; to stand up, to get up, to rise
ལེགས་
LEK
(legs)
Good, excellent
བྱིན་
JIN
(byin)
Past tense of sbyin pa: to give, to add; giving, generosity, addition
ཁྱོད་
KY’Ö
(khyod)
You
བསྟན་པ་
TEN PA
(bstan pa)
Past and future tense of ston pa: to show, to demonstrate, to teach; the teaching, the doctrine
དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་
DAY ZHIN SHEK PA
(de bzhin gshegs pa)
Tathagata (skt.), one who has gone to suchness, epithet for the Buddha
རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་
JAY SOO YEE RONG
(rjes su yi rang)
To rejoice in, feel glad about, rejoicing
ཡི་རང་
YEE RONG
(yi rang)
Rejoicing
བཀའ་སྩལ་
KA STEL
(bka’ stsal)
To pronounce, to explain, to teach, to grant, to command, to order
འཁོར་
K’OR
(‘khor)
Entourage, retinue, audience.
ལྷ་
LHA
(lha)
God, deity
མི་
MEE
(mi)
Human Being, person
ལྷ་མ་ཡིན་
LHA MA YIN
(lha ma yin)
Demigod, asura (Skt.)
དྲི་ཟར་
DREE ZAR
(dri zar)
Ghandarva (Skt.), scent eater
འཟིག་རྟེན་
JIK TEN
(‘jig rten)
World
གསུངས་པ་
SOONG PA
(‘gsungs pa)
Past tense of sung pa: to speak, to say, to tell (honorific)
བསྟོད་
TÖ
(bstod)
To praise; praise
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་
T’EK PA CH’EN PO
(theg pa chen po)
Mahayana (Skt.), Great Vehicle
མདོ་
DOE
(mdo)
Sutra (Skt.)
ན་མོ་
NA MO
(na mo)
Sanskrit: homage, salutation
བླ་མ་
LA MA
(bla ma)
Guru (Skt.), lama
ཡུམ་ཆེན་མོ་
YOOM CH’EN MO
(yum chen mo)
TheGreat Mother, prajnaparamita
ཡུམ་
YOOM
(yum)
Mother (honorific)
ཚིག་
TS’IK
(tshig)
Word, phrase
འགྲུབ་པ་
DROOP PA
(‘grub pa)
Present and future tense of ‘grub pa: to happen, to come about, to be accomplished
གྱུར་
GYOOR
(gyur)
Past tense of ‘gyur ba: to be(come), to transform
་
སྔོན་
NGÖN
(sngon)
Previously, formerly, before
ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་
HLAY WONG PO GYA JIN
(lha’i dbang po brgya byin)
Lord of the Gods, the name of the chief god in the Heaven of the Thirty-three- Kaushika Devendra
བསམས་
SAHM
(bsams)
Past tense of seems pa: to think about, give thought to; volition, motivation
ཤིང་
SHING
(shing)
And; tree, wood
ཁ་ཏོན་
K’A TÖN
(aha ton)
Recitation; daily recitation, daily prayers
བྱས་པ་
JAY PA
(byas pa)
Past tense of byed pa: to do
བདུད་སྡིག་ཅན་
DÜ DIK CHEN
(bud dig can)
Desire god, king of the desire gods, evil mara
ལ་སོགས་པ་
LA SOKE PA
(la sogs pa)
Et cetera, and the like, and the rest, and so forth
མཐུན་པ་
TÜN PA
(mthun pa)
To be in harmony, to be in accord to agree; agreeable, conducive
ཕྱོགས་
CHOKE
(phyogs)
Direction, Side
ཕྱིར་བཟློག་པ་
CH’IR DOKE PA
(pryor blog pa)
To turn back, to repel, to expel, to ward off
གང་
GONG
(gang)
What, which, who
རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྱེལ་བར་འབྱུང་
TEN CHING DREL WAR JOONG
(rten cing ‘brel bar ‘byung)
Dependent arising, interdependent, origination, relativity
འགག་པ་
GOK PA
(‘gag pa)
Present and future tense of ‘gag pa: to be stopped, destroyed, ceased
སྐྱེ་
KYAY
(skye)
Present and future tense of skye ba: to be born, to arise, to be produced
ཆད་པ་
CH’AY PA
(chad pa)
Nothingness, nihilism
རྟག་
TAK
(rtag)
Permanent, permanence; eternalism
འོང་བ་
OHNG WA
(‘ong ba)
Present and future tense of ‘ong ba: to come
འགྲོ་
DRO
(‘gro)
Present and future tense of ‘gro ba: to go
ཐ་དད་
T’A DAY
(tha dad)
Distinct, separate; various, manifold
དོན་
DÖN
(don)
Meaning; purpose; benefit
སྤྲོས་པ་
TRÖ PA
(spros pa)
Elaboration; elaborateness, complexity
ཉེར་
NYER
(nyer)
Absolutely, fully, completely; close, near, almost
ཞི་
ZHEE
(zhi)
Past, present, and future tense of zhi ba: to pacify, to clm; peace, tranquility
སྨྲ་
MA
(smra)
Speech, statement; present and future tense of smra ba: to utter, to speak, to say; advocate, proponent
དམ་པ་
DAM PA
(dam pa)
Holy, sacred, sublime; true genuine
མངྒལཾ་
MON GA LOM
(mangalam)
Sanskrit: auspiciousness, goodness, good fortune