Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 14

Question 1

ཆོད་
chod

Answer 1

This is the imperative form of གཅོད་པ་ vt. to cut, or to cut off.

Question 2

འོངས་པར་མཐོང

‘ongs par mthong

Answer 2

vt. to see coming

Question 3

བཏགས་
btags

Answer 3

This is the past tense of འདོག་པ་ vt. to fasten, to tie, to affix.

Question 4

ཕྱུང་
phyung

Answer 4

This is the imperative form of འབྱིན་པ vt. to remove, to take out, to extract.

Question 5

བརྫོད་
brdzod

Answer 5

This is the past and future form of བརྫོད་པ vt. to say, to speak, to utter, to tell.

Question 6

གཅིག་ཏུ་(x) གཉིས་སུ་ (y)
gcig tu gnyis su

Answer 6

“First of all, (x) and second, (y).”

Question 7

ཕྲོགས་
phrogs

Answer 7

This is the past tense of འཕྲོག་པ་ vt. to steal, to loot, to take away, to rob.

Question 8

རྒྱལ་བ་
rgyal ba

Answer 8

vi. to win, to be victorious

Question 9

(x) ཡང་བླའོ
yang bl’o

Answer 9

“It is better if/to (x)”; this combines with the comparative ཕྱུང་བ་བས་ noted earlier, “It is better if (x) than removing (x).”

Question 10

ལྷ་
lha

Answer 10

Vocative, literally meaning, “god”, but referring to, “the king” here.
It could also be translated as, “lord”.