RY2 JOL 10

Question 1

གནས་སྐབས་
gnas skabs

Answer 1

n. a circumstance, an occasion, a situation

Question 2

སོ་སོར་སྐྱེས་བུ་
so sor skyes bu

Answer 2

n. an ordinary being (as opposed to a spiritually advanced being)

Question 3

དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་
dge ba’i bshes gnyen

Answer 3

n. spiritual friend, spiritual guide, virtuous friend

Question 4

གོམས་པ་
goms pa

Answer 4

vi. to be habituated to, to be used to, to have formed a habit of; the object of this verb is marked by a ld ་. The transitive form of this is the verb སྒོམས་པ, which is often translated as “to meditate”, but a more accurate translation is “to cultivate”,
or “to habituate oneself to” something.)

Question 5

བག་ཆགས་
bag chags

Answer 5

n. habitual tendency, latent tendency, habitual pattern, karmic imprint

Question 6

འཇུག་པར་དཀའ་
‘jug par dka’

Answer 6

Here the word དཀའ་, which has the meaning of “difficulty”, is used as a verb, and forms a compound verb with འཇུག་པ་. Together
this means: (to be) difficult to enter.

Question 7

དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་སོ་སོའི་སྐྱེ་བོ
dge ba’i bshes gnyen so so’i skye bo

Answer 7

This is the name of the first kind of spiritual guide.The ordinary kind.

Question 8

སོ་སོའི་སྐྱེ་བོ
so so’i skye bo

Answer 8

n. an ordinary being (as opposed to a spiritually advanced being)

Question 9

ས་ཆེན་པོ་
sa chen po

Answer 9

n. the great (bodhisattva) grounds (Skt. bhūmis); these refer to certain degrees of spiritual realization of bodhisattvas.

Question 10

སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ་
sangs rgyas sprul pa’i sku

Answer 10

emanation body of the Buddha, nirmanakaya