RYI, Chapter 1, Vocab List 1

Question 1

སངས་རྒྱས་

Answer 1

sangs rgyas - Buddha
pronounced - sang-gye

Question 2

ཆོས་

Answer 2

chos - dharma
pronounced - cho

Question 3

དགེ་འདུན་

Answer 3

dge ‘dun - spiritual community,sangha
pronounced - gen dun

Question 4

བྱང་ཆུབ་

Answer 4

byang chub - enlightenment (Skt.bodhi)
pronounced - chang-chup

Question 5

སེམས​

Answer 5

sems - mind
pronounced - sem

Question 6

འཁོར་བ་

Answer 6

‘khor ba - samsara, cyclic existence
pronounced - khor-wa

Question 7

དགེ་བ་

Answer 7

dge ba - virtuous, wholesome
pronounced - ge’wa

Question 8

སྡིག་པ་

Answer 8

sdig pa - misdeed, evil deed pronounced - dik-pa

Question 9

བདེ་བ

Answer 9

bde ba - happiness
pronounced - de-wa

Question 10

སྡུག་བསྔལ་

Answer 10

sdug bsngal - suffering
pronounced - duk ngel

Question 11

མདོ

Answer 11

mdo - discourse, (skt. sutra) pronounced - do

Question 12

ལམ་

Answer 12

lam - path
pronounced - lam

Question 13

དགོན་པ་

Answer 13

dgon pa - monastery
pronounced - gon-ba

Question 14

བླ་མ་

Answer 14

bla ma - guru
pronounced - lama

Question 15

སློབ་མ་

Answer 15

slob ma - disciple, student
pronounced - lo-ma

Question 16

མཆོག་

Answer 16

mchog - supreme
pronounced - chok

Question 17

ཆེན་པོ

Answer 17

chen po - large, great
pronounced - chen-bo

Question 18

དམན་པ་

Answer 18

dman pa - inferior, low
pronounced - men-ba

Question 19

བཟང་པོ་

Answer 19

bzang po - good, auspicious
pronounced - z(s)ang-bo

Question 20

ངན་པ་

Answer 20

ngan pa - bad, evil
pronounced - ngen-ba

Question 21

གསར་པ་

Answer 21

gsar pa - new
pronounced - sar pa

Question 22

རྙིང་པ་

Answer 22

rnying pa - old
pronounced - nying-ba

Question 23

དམ་པ་

Answer 23

dam pa - sacred
pronounced - tam-ba

Question 24

ཟབ་མོ་

Answer 24

zab mo - profound, deep
pronounced - sap-mo

Question 25

མང་པོ་

Answer 25

mang po - many, pronounced - mang-bo

Question 26

རྡ

Answer 26

rda - horse pronounced da

Question 27

ཐམས་ཅད་

Answer 27

thams cad - everywhere, all pronounced - tham-je

Question 28

ཀུན་

Answer 28

kun - all pronounced - gun

Question 29

མི

Answer 29

mi- human being pronounced - mi

Question 30

ཁང་པ་

Answer 30

khang pa - house pronounced khang ba

Question 31

ཆུ

Answer 31

chu - water pronounced - chu

Question 32

ཚ་པོ་

Answer 32

tsha po - hot pronounced -

Question 33

དབང་

Answer 33

dbang - empowerment, initiation pronounced - ang/wang

Question 34

ཤེས་རབ་

Answer 34

shes rab - wisdom pronounced - shé rap

Question 35

ཐབས་

Answer 35

thabs - method, means pronounced - thap

Question 36

བོད་པ་

Answer 36

bod pa - Tibetan pronounced - bö pa

Question 37

ཐེག་པ་

Answer 37

theg pa - vehicle, path, yana (skt) pronounced -

Question 38

དམར་པོ་

Answer 38

dmar po - red pronounced - mar-bo

Question 39

ནག་པོ་

Answer 39

nag po - black pronounced - nak-bo

Question 40

བཀྲ་ཤིས་

Answer 40

bkra shis - tashi (personal Tibetan name)

Question 41

ཚེ་རིང་

Answer 41

tshe ring - tsering, deity, long life, longevity, (personal Tibetan name) pronounced - tsé ring

Question 42

ཟླ་བ་

Answer 42

zla ba - dawa, and moon (personal Tibetan name) pronounced - da wa

Question 43

ཉི་མ་

Answer 43

nyi ma - sun pronounced - ni-ma

Question 44

རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ་

Answer 44

rdo rje theg pa - Vajrayana pronounced -dor jé tek pa