Minor Tibetan Texts: 1. The song of the Eastern Snow-mountain
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Minor Tibetan Texts: 1. The song of the Eastern Snow-mountain
Buddhist literature, Tibetan; Prayer -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Buddhism; Tibetan language -- Texts
14. He, whose body blazes with the marks and beauties (as of a Buddha),
Whose speech is adorned with the sixty branches of melody,
Whose deep and wide mind, indeed, is a treasury of omniscient love,
May that glorious teacher’s blessing be on us.
The above was composed by the Great Omniscient Clergy Perfection
Good-Glory as a song in loving memory.
Blessing.
E. GLOSSARY AND NOTES.
(LEXICOGRAPHICAL, SYNTACTICAL AND MATERIAL.)
ཀུག་ see ཀྱུ་.
ཀུན་གྱིས་ཁྲེལ་བའི་རྒྱུ་, 32. Not so much ‘a matter of shame to all’ (= all the
people who look at or into the matter, the beholders, the general
public, or even humanity in general), but rather ‘a matter of all (of
them) being ashamed,’ i.e. the people doing the shameful acts, the
people concerned, engaged in this conduct, not the public in general.
ཀུན་སློང་, 29. Here thought, conception, wish (cf. D. opwelling). (Desg.
‘all-enveloping,’ i.e. ‘natural corruption or sin,’ p. 8b, but ཀུན་སློང་ =
ཉོན་མོང་གི་སློང་, ‘excitement of passion’ on p. 1044a). See also S. Ch. D.,
p. 29b, समुत्पाद, but Schroeter, p. 2b, ‘approbation, assent, the
consenting to any proposition.’
ཀོ་ཀོ་ see གླུད་.
ཀྱང་, 30. Here equal to ཡིན་ན་ཡང་, ‘yet, however, nevertheless.’
ཀྱུ་, 20. Not as a separate word in J., who gives ཀུག་ and ཀྱོ་བ་, the
latter after Schmidt. This is the word occurring in the compound ཞབས་ཀྱུ་
the Tibetan u-vowel, the ‘foot-hook’ (not merely honorific of ཀྱུ་ as
Hannah seems to suggest in his Grammar of the Tibetan Language, p. 4),
which J. has under ཞབས་, on p. 472a, together with a queried meaning
‘spur’ (of the foot: ‘ein Sporn’), taken from Csoma. This latter
meaning is unknown to my informants. Bell gives: hook ཀུག་; fishhook ཉ་
ཀུག་, but iron hook ལྕགས་ཀྱུ་. Henderson gives both ཁུག་ and ཀྱུ་ for hook,
and also ལྕགས་ཀྱུ་ alone for iron hook. My informants deny the correctness
of ཁུག་. Desg. knows ཀུག་ (པ་) only as a verb, not as a subst.; he
mentions ཀྱུ་ as a separate word, subst. hook, and does not mention ཀྱོ་བ་.
The various articles in the three Dicts. sub ཁུག་ are interesting but
the meaning hook is not given in any of them. S. Ch. D. translates ཀྱོ་བ་
with ‘अङ्कुश, a pointed iron hook, a large pin to pierce with,’ whilst
Macdonell in his Sk. dict. translates the Sk. word as ‘hook, goad,
stimulus, remedy.’ (See below s.v. འདྲེན་པ་.) J. under ཀུག་ gives also
ལྕགས་ཀུག་, an iron hook, and ཉ་ཀུག་, a fishing hook, but my informants say
that the colloquial for fish hook is rather ཉ་འཛིན་ཡའི་ (or པའི་) ལྕགས་ཀྱུ་
or simply ཉ་འཛིན་ (pr. nyendzin), just as a meat hook (to hang up meat
on) is ཤ་འཛིན་ (pr. shendzin). The ཡ་ in the above represents the
pronunciation of the more illiterate people.
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