RY2 JOL 3

Question 1

བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ
bde gshegs snying po

Answer 1

Noun/Adjective Skt. sugatagarbha; this is a term that’s often translated as”buddha nature”. Essence body of the thus gone one. There are objections to and many alternatives for this translation, but for now we can stick with this.

Question 2

དེ་ལྟར་
de ltar

Answer 2

“like that”, “in that way” (referring back to what was just mentioned)ི adverbial

Question 3

ཅི་
ci

Answer 3

interrogative pronoun - asks question, placed before verb - what which etc like kim skt.

Question 4

ཤེ་ན
she na

Answer 4

“If one were to ask (x)”. The particle ཤེ་ can also be spelled as ཅེ་
or ཞེ་ and is related to the quotation particle taking spelling rules into account. (See textbook lesson six for clarification.) The base meaning of the particle is “to say”, “to state”, or “to explain”. With the added conditional particle ན་, we get the meaning “if one
says”.
adverbial

Question 5

རྟེན
rten

Answer 5

noun. a support

Question 6

འཕིན་ལས
‘phin las
maybe should be
ཕྲིན་ལས
phrin las

Answer 6

enlightened activity
compound nun/verb

Question 7

བླ་མེད
bla med
Short for
བླ་ན་མེད་པ་
bla na med pa

Answer 7

adjective unsurpassed, highest, supreme

Question 8

སྡོམ
sdom

Answer 8

(noun). summary, summation; 2) n. spider; 3) n. section of a text

Question 9

སྤྱི་སྡོམ
spyi sdom

Answer 9

A summary”, “a general explanation”, “a summary of contents
consisting of points”. This term can also refer to the specific points contained within the summary. adjective?

Question 10

བློ་ལྡན་
blo ldan

Answer 10

adj. intelligent, wise; we can break this word down into བློ་, “intellect”, and ལྡན་, which means “endowed with”. So, it literally means, “those who are endowed with intellect”.