RY2 JOL 6

Question 1

སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོ
sangs rgyas kyi snying po

Answer 1

noun, the essence of buddhahood, referring to buddha-nature

Question 2

སྙིང་པོ་ཅན་
snying po can

Answer 2

ཅན་ after a noun literally means, “a ‘haver’ of that noun”,
“someone/something who has or possesses that noun”. So here, a ‘possessor’ of buddha-nature.

Question 3

དམྱལ་བ་
dmyal ba

Answer 3

noun. hell being (a being who lives in a hellish realm), the hell realms

Question 4

ཡི་དྭགས་
yi dwags

Answer 4

noun. hungry ghost, the hungry ghost realm

Question 5

ལྔ་ཆ་
lnga cha

Answer 5

noun. a group of five. Here the reference is to the five realms that
comprise samsara. The hungry ghost realm and the hell realms have already been mentioned. The other realms are the human realm, god realm, and animal realm. This word is followed by a ལ་
དོན་ that denotes location. ལྔ་ཆར་ then literally means, “in the five
realms”, but can be understood to mean, “beings in the five realms”, and in the greater context of this sentence, it could even be understood to mean “ALL beings in the five realms”.

Question 6

ནུས་པ
nus pa

Answer 6

power, capacity
Noun/Verb, pf. of ནུ་བ

Question 7

དུད་འགྲོ
dud ‘gro

Answer 7

animal, Noun

Question 8

དལ་བ
dal ba

Answer 8

freedoms, Noun

Question 9

འབྱོར་བ
‘byor ba

Answer 9

treasures, endowments,
Noun

Question 10

དལ་འབྱོར
dal ‘byor

Answer 10

These terms can be translated in a
variety of ways; some common translations are, “freedoms and endowments”, “leisures and connections”, “freedoms and riches”. In Buddhist discourse these are common terms, and refer to different kinds of conditions that need to be fulfilled for an existence to be a “precious human body/existence”