RYI Chapter 2 Vocab List

Question 1

དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་

Answer 1

dkon mchog gsum - the three jewels (lit. the three “rare” and “supreme”)
pronounced - kön chok sum

Question 2

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་

Answer 2

byang chub sems dpa’ - bodhisattva
pronounced - jang chup sem pa

Question 3

སེམས་ཅན

Answer 3

sems can - sentient beings
pronounced - sem chen

Question 4

སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་

Answer 4

stong pa nyid - emptiness
pronounced - tong pa nyi

Question 5

ནམ་མཁའ

Answer 5

nam mkha’ - space, sky
pronounced - nam kha

Question 6

རྒྱུ

Answer 6

rgyu - cause
pronounced - gyu

Question 7

འབྲས་བུ

Answer 7

‘bras bu - effect, fruition
pronounced - dré bu

Question 8

མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ

Answer 8

mya ngan las ‘das pa - nirvana
pronounced - nya ngen lé dé pa

Question 9

དཀྱིལ་འཁོར

Answer 9

dkyil ‘khor - mandala
pronounced - kyinkhor

Question 10

རྡོ་རྗེ

Answer 10

rdo rje - Vajra
pronounced - dor jé

Question 11

ལས་

Answer 11

las - action, karma
pronounced - lé

Question 12

ཉོན་མོངས

Answer 12

nyon mongs - afflictive emotion
pronounced = nyön mong

Question 13

འདོད་ཆགས

Answer 13

‘dod chags - desire, attachment
pronounced - dö chak

Question 14

ཞེ་སྡང

Answer 14

zhe sdang - anger, aversion
pronounced - zhé dang

Question 15

གཏི་མུག

Answer 15

gti mug - ignorance, stupidity
pronounced - ti muk

Question 16

སྙིང་རྗེ

Answer 16

snying rje - compassion
pronounced - nying jé

Question 17

བསྟན་པ་

Answer 17

bstan pa - teaching
pronounced - ten pa

Question 18

འཕགས་པ་

Answer 18

‘phags pa - noble, arya (skt)
pronounced - pak pa

Question 19

དམྱལ་བ་

Answer 19

dmyal ba - hell being
pronounced - nyelwa

Question 20

ཡི་དྭགས

Answer 20

yi dwags - hungry ghost, preta
pronounced - yi dak

Question 21

དུད་འགྲོ་

Answer 21

dud ‘gro - animal
pronounced - dündro

Question 22

ངན་སོང་གསུམ

Answer 22

ngan song gsum - the three lower realms
pronounced - ngen song sum

Question 23

མཐོ་རིས་གསུམ་

Answer 23

mtho ris gsum - the three higher realms
pronounced - to ri sum

Question 24

མཆོད་པ

Answer 24

mchod pa - offering, puja
pronounced - chö pa

Question 25

རྒྱ་གར

Answer 25

rgya gar - India
pronounced - gya gar

Question 26

བལ་ཡུལ་

Answer 26

bal yul - Nepal
pronounced - bel yül

Question 27

རྫོགས་པ་

Answer 27

rdzogs pa - perfect, complete
pronounced - dzok pa

Question 28

གོ་འཕང

Answer 28

go ‘phang - level, position, rank, state
pronounced - gompang

Question 29

འབྱུང་གནས་

Answer 29

‘byung gnas - source, origin
pronounced - jung né

Question 30

ཐར་པ

Answer 30

thar pa - liberation
pronounced - tar pa

Question 31

གདམས་ངག

Answer 31

gdams ngag - oral instruction
pronounced - dam ngak

Question 32

ཕྱི

Answer 32

phyi - outer, external
pronounced - chi

Question 33

མེ་ཏོག་

Answer 33

me tog - flower
pronounced - mé tok

Question 34

གྲྭ་པ

Answer 34

grwa pa - monk
pronounced - dra pa

Question 35

དཀར་པོ་

Answer 35

dkar po - white
pronounced - kar po

Question 36

ཆོས་ལུགས་

Answer 36

chos lugs - religion, order
pronounced - chö luk

Question 37

དངོས་གྲུབ

Answer 37

dngos grub - siddhi, spiritual accomplishment
pronounced - ngö drup