RY2 JOL 17

Question 1

ཉམས་སུ་བླངས་པ་
nyams su blangs pa

Answer 1

vt. to practice, to gain experience in; literally: “to take into experience”. This is the past tense of this verb.

Question 2

ཅི་ཙམ་ཞིག་
ci tsam zhig

Answer 2

This is the interrogative pronoun ཅི་ modified by ཙམ་ and ཞིག་: “What kind of thing?”, “What does it/do they look like?”, “What do they amount to?”

Question 3

འཁོར་བ་ཡི་ཉེས་དམིགས་
‘khor ba yi nyes dmigs

Answer 3

the defects of samsara/cyclic existence

Question 3

བཅས་པ
bcas pa

Answer 3

“including”; here, this is used mainly as a verse filler.
with, possessing, having.

Question 3

བྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེ་
byams dang snying rje

Answer 3

loving kindness and compassion

Question 4

བྱང་ཆུབ་ཏུ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་
byang chub tu sems bskyed

Answer 4

vt. “to give rise to the mind of enlightenment, this refers to a spiritual practice.

Question 5

སྤྱིར་
spyir

Answer 5

in general སྤྱིར means “general” (the opposite of particular). Here, it is marked by a ལ་དོན་, so we get the meaning “in general”. This is a very common expression.

Question 6

ཞལ་
zhal

Answer 6

[H] n. mouth, face

Question 7

སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞལ་ནས་ཀྱང་
sangs rgyas kyi zhal nas kyang

Answer 7

This introduces a quotation. Literally it says, “Also, from the mouth of the Buddha”, meaning that what follows has been said by the Buddha. Usually such quotations are given to support the author’s thesis with authoritative scripture.

Question 8

དགེ་སློང་དག་
dge slong dag

Answer 8

n. monk (Skt. bhikṣu). Note that it is followed here by a plural particle. This is the way in which the Buddha usually addresses
his monks.