RY2 Heart Sutra 8

Question 1

སྡུས་བསྔལ་་བ་
sdus bsngal ba

Answer 1

n. unsatisfactoriness, suffering; adj. unsatisfactory; this is the first
of a set of four called the four truths of the noble ones, or, the four noble truths. This is recognized as a core teaching by all Buddhist traditions.

Question 2

ཀུན་འབྱུང་བ་
kun ‘byung ba

Answer 2

n. origination; this is the second of the four truths mentioned above. It refers to the source or origin of the suffering that the first truth refers to.

Question 3

འགོག་པ་
‘gog pa

Answer 3

n. cessation; this is referring to the third of the four truths. It refers to the cessation of suffering; vt. 1) to stop, to block, to halt 2) to uproot

Question 4

ལམ་
lam

Answer 4

n. path; this is the fourth truth.

Question 5

ཐོབ་པ་
thob pa

Answer 5

n. attainment; gain; past tense of vi. འཐོབ་པ་ to obtain, to attain

Question 6

སྒྲིབ་པ
sgrib pa

Answer 6

n. obscuration, veil; vt. to obscure, to veil

Question 7

སྐྲག་པ་
skrag pa

Answer 7

n. fear, fright; vi. to be scared, to be afraid

Question 8

ཕྱིན་ཅི་ལོག་པ
phyin ci log pa

Answer 8

adj./n. (something that is) wrong, mistaken, incorrect, erroneous, an error, inverted, perverse, untrue

Question 9

འདས་པ་
‘das pa

Answer 9

This is the past tense of vi. ‘da’ ba: “to pass”, “to pass beyond”, “to go beyond”; n. 1) the past (in terms of time) 2) someone who is deceased 3) that which has exceeded, gone beyond something

Question 10

མཐར་ཕྱིན་
mthar phyin

Answer 10

“perfected”, “finalized”, “concluded”, “graduated”; literally, this means, “gone to the end”. Verb and noun/adj?