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
སྐྱེ་བ་, 4. This is an illustration of the meaning of སྐྱེ་བ་ under J.’s 4th
sub-heading, 1st division. དད་པ་སྐྱེས་ ‘faith has been born,’ but here
rather ‘becomes active,’ ‘sprouts,’ ‘waxes strong,’ or ‘grows, flames
up, intensifies, awakens, arises, stirs.’ The idea is not, as in a case
of Christian conversion, of a state of previously non-existent faith,
suddenly arising, but of an existing faith becoming strongly energised,
leaping up (‘an outburst of faith’). The colloquial དད་པ་སྐྱེས་ can be
suitably translated by ‘to inspire faith to.’ For instance བླ་མ་འདི་ལ་དད་
པ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་ (མི་) འདུག་, that lama inspires me with (no) faith. A free
translation of དད་པ་སྐྱེ་བ་ is consequently ‘to have faith in,’ but in our
passage the additional meaning of ‘renewed’ is implied. Therefore we
may also render ‘they call up my faith’ or ‘renewed faith comes up in
me.’ See the use of this expression in the Tibetan Primer III, p. 7, 1.
8. དེ་ནས་ཁོ་ (read ཁོས་) རྒྱལ་པོ་དེ་ཤིན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོར་ཤེས་ཏེ་དད་པ་སྐྱེས་ཏེ་ཕྱག་གྲངས་མེད་འཚལ་
ནས་རྒྱལ་པོས་གནང་བ་དེ་རྣམས་བདག་ག་ལ་ཞུ ། Then he, recognising that the king was
very good, and having gained faith in him, and having prostrated
himself numberless times, (asked) how can I request (i.e. take, accept)
such (gifts) given by the king.
སྐྱེད་སྒོ་ see སྒོ་.
སྐྱེད་པ་, 50. To generate, the generation, production. སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ་ ‘that
which has been produced in the soul,’ ‘the (completed) productions of
the soul’; with དང་ = with; ‘with thoughts of, assuming, observing an
attitude of, with a mental attitude of or disposition to.’ འགྲོ་བ་རྣམས་
བྱམས་སྙིང་རྗེས་དྲངས་པའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ (དང་) is one elaborate substantive, a
‘the-beings-with-kindness-having-drawn-soul-disposition.’
སྐྱོ་བ་, 28. Here not in J.’s sense ‘to be weary,’ but as Desg. and S. Ch.
D. have it ‘sadness, grief, sorrow,’ or adj. ‘sad’, etc. In seeing a
half-naked beggar, it may be said: མི་འདི་སྐྱོ་བ་ལ་ཁོ་ལ་དུག་ལོག་ཡང་མི་འདུག་. Here
the word is adjective: ‘that unhappy (unfortunate, wretched, miserable)
man has not even a coat.’ [དུག་ལོག་ (Bell) = J. དུག་པོ་ = གོས་ལག་ = ཆུ་པ་ =
Desg. ཆོ་པ་, coat, garment, dress; not alone ‘man’s coat,’ as J. has it,
but for both sexes—J. s.v. ཆུ་པ་. ཆུ་པ་ and ཆོ་པ་ both missing in S. Ch.
D. གོས་ལག་ is pronounced both golak and gölak. Walsh, Vocabulary Tromowa
Dialect, s.v. coat ‘go’ and ‘golag.’ My teachers do not know a word དུག་
པོ་ for coat in Tibetan. Desg. has a དུགས་པོ་, overcoat. S. Ch. D. དུག་པ༌
or དུག་པོ་ ‘old coat or garment patched up and mended.’]
ག་གདན་ see གདན་.
ཁ་རྩོད་ see གཤགས་འགྱེད་པ་.
ཁ་གཤགས་འགྱེད་པ་ see གཤགས་འགྱེད་པ་.
ཁུག་ see ཀྱུ་.
ཁོ་བོའི་རྗེས་མཇུག་གྲོགས་པོ་རྣམས་, 45. My followers and friends (cf. citizens and
compatriots), i.e. followers who are also my friends; the same people
under two qualifications, not two different groups of people, the
friends and the followers. See རྗེས་མཇུག་པ་.
ཁོ་མི་གླུད་ཡིན་ see གླུད་.
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