RY2 Heart Sutra 10

Question 1

བཞེངས་
bzhengs

Answer 1

[H] vi. 1) to rise up (from), to get up, to stand up 2) to construct, to produce

Question 2

ལེགས་སོ་
legs so

Answer 2

“Well done”, “wonderful”, “so be it”, “it is good”; an expression that expresses approval. It is a translation of the Sanskrit, “sādhu”.

Question 3

ལེགས་སོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བྱིན་ནས་
legs so zhes bya ba byin nas

Answer 3

“Giving his approval”; literally: “giving that which is called ‘sādhu’”.

Question 4

བྱིན་པ་
byin pa

Answer 4

This is the past tense of vt. སྦྱིན་པ་ to give, to donate

Question 5

དེ་བཞིན་ (དུ་)
de bzhin

Answer 5

“Like that”

Question 6

ཇི་ལྟར་ (x) དེ་བཞིན་དུ་(y)
ji ltar x de bzhin
can be ཇི་ལྟར་ན་ also

Answer 6

“(just) as (x), like that (y)”, “in the way that (x), (y) too”,

Question 7

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་
de bzhin gshegs pa

Answer 7

“thus-gone one”, an epithet of a buddha (Skt. tathāgata)

Question 8

རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་བ་
rjes su yi rang ba

Answer 8

vi. to rejoice, to be glad, to be sympathetic, to delight in something; n. rejoicing

Question 9

བཀའ་སྩལ་བ་
bka’ stsal ba

Answer 9

[H] vt. 1) to speak (especially in the context of giving a speech or a teaching) 2) to command

Question 10

ཐམས་ཅད་དང་ལྡན་པ་
thams cad dang ldan pa

Answer 10

adj. complete, entire; literally: “including all”