Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 7

Question 1

བླངས་
blangs

Answer 1

this is the past tense of ལེན་པ་ vt. to pick up, to take, to grab hold of, to accept.

Question 2

འཕངས་པ་
‘phangs pa

Answer 2

This is the past tense of འཕེན་པ་ vt. 1) to throw, to hurl, to fling, to propel 2) to imply, to lead to.

Question 3

རྐང་པ་
rkang pa

Answer 3

n. leg, foot

Question 4

ཕོག་པ་
phog pa

Answer 4

vi. to strike, to hit, to be struck by, to be hit by

Question 5

བཅག་པ་
bcag pa

Answer 5

This is the past tense of གཅོག་པ vt. 1) to break 2) to reduce in amount 3) to go against, to break a promise.

Question 6

བསད་པ་
bsad pa

Answer 6

This is the past tense of གསོད་པ་ vt. to kill, to put out, to end.

Question 7

ཅིའི་ཕྱིར
ci’i phyir

Answer 7

“Why?”; literally either, “because of what?” or, “for what purpose?”

Question 8

ཚུར་
tshur

Answer 8

“In this direction”, “this way”

Question 9

ཤོག་
shog

Answer 9

This is used at the end of a sentence to 1) create the imperative sense, “come!” 2) express a wish, or 3) express an imperative sense in general. In this case, ཚུར་ཤོག་ together means, “come here”, or “come with me”.

Question 10

(x) འི་དྲུང་དུ་
‘i drung du

Answer 10

This is a postposition meaning, “near”, “before”, “to”, “in the direction of”, “in the presence of”, or, “at the feet of”.