RY2 Heart Sutra 3

Question 1

རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་མོ་
rigs kyi bu mo

Answer 1

n. “a daughter of the family/lineage”.

Question 2

ལ་ལ་
la la

Answer 2

“some”, “any”, “a”; together with གང་ that precedes it, it forms a question.

Question 3

སྤྱོད་པར་འདོད་པ་
spyod par ‘dod pa

Answer 3

“to want to engage”, “to want to practice” (nominalized)

Question 4

ཇི་ལྟར་
ji ltar

Answer 4

An interrogative pronoun meaning, “how?”, what, like what

Question 5

བསླབ་པ་
bslab pa

Answer 5

The future tense of སློབ་པ་ vt. “to train in”

Question 6

ཡང་དག་པར་
yang dag par

Answer 6

completely/correctly adverb
These are both adverbs to བལྟ་བ་ which comes after. These are likely translations of Sanskrit prefixes having the sense of respectively, “completely/distinctly” and, “authentically/truly”.

Question 7

རྣམ་པར
rnam par

Answer 7

correctly, adverb
These are both adverbs to བལྟ་བ་ which comes after. These are likely translations of Sanskrit prefixes having the sense of respectively, “completely/distinctly” and, “authentically/truly”.

Question 8

རྗེས་སུ་བལྟ་བ་
rjes su blta ba

Answer 8

“to see something as something”, “to regard”; the རྗེས་སུ is again a translation of a Sanskrit prefix (“anu-”) which has the sense of “subsequent” and “after”. Here, this could be understood to have the sense of, “regarding something in a certain way after having looked at it”.

Question 9

གཟུགས་
gzugs

Answer 9

n. form; the first of the five aggregates (ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་).

Question 10

དེ་བཞིན་དུ་
de bzhin du

Answer 10

“like that”