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Tonight / Last Night
དོ་དགོང་, མདང་དགོང་, respectively. I should use them more instead of ད་རིང་དགོང་དག་ or ཁེ་ས་དགོང་དག
Reciting Spellings
ཁ་ཏོན། & ཁ་འདོན།
Nominalized Verb + བྱུང་
I have heard the I couldn’t reply to your message as ལེན་ཕུལ་ཡག་བྱུང་མ་སོང་། or ལེན་ཕུལ་ཡག་བྱུང་ཡོད་མ་རེད།
To Receive Money in the Bank
I sent a bank transfer to a friend, and I wanted to say You will probably get the money tomorrow. And I used the verb to obtain instead of the better way to arrive.
རག་པ་ is more the result of a volitional action.
སང་ཉིན་དངུལ་ཁྱེད་རང་གི་དངུལ་ཁང་ལ་རག་འབྱོར་ས་རེད།
Practice Idea for SLC slc
Do some by turns we say one sentence with the two forms.
ངས་ཨེམ་ཆི་ལགས་ལ་ངའི་རྐང་པ་ལ་བཤག་བཅོས་བྱེད་དགོས་ཀྱི་ རེད་པས་ཟ་ / ཡོད་མེད་ བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུ་པ་ཡིན།
- I asked your son whether we must buy food inside.
- Rinpoche asked whether we needed to bring the kataks.
- His sister asked me whether despite my leg pain I will be able to go to Tibet.
Reporting Imperative needs-teacher
Is it always direct-reported when reporting an imperative, be it said by ourselves or by someone else? ^2f8130
ངས་ཁོང་ལ་(ཁྱེད་རང་)ཁ་ལག་ཟ་རོགས་གནང་ཟེ་ཞུ་པ་ཡིན།
ཁོང་གིས་ང་ལ་(ཁྱེད་རང་)ཁ་ལག་ཟ་རོགས་གནང་ཟེ་སུངས་སོང་།
Sowa Rigpa
The science of healing, medicine, གསོ་བ་རིག་པ། = གསོ་རིག
Remember how we can speak of science disciplines with the རིག་པ་ (science): སེམས་ཁམས་རིག་པ།, ཚན
The Four Tantras
Very interesting how Tibetan medicine is connected to the Dharma! The Tibetan medicine students might need to memorize texts from the རྒྱུད་བཞི། (the Four tantras).
Asking Teacher for Correction
This is something us students might use a lot in our learning journey!
One way is by using the weather is correct, that is, using the ཡོད་མད་
ངའི་ཚིག་གྲུབ་དེ་འགྲིག་ཡོད་མེད་གཟིགས་རོགས་གནང།
But I also came across the verb to correct ནོར་བཙོས་བྱེད་པ།
རྒན་ལགས་ཀྱིས་ནོར་བཅོས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་འདུག
Using If Instead of Nominalizing
I have observed sometimes English translations can mislead you into nominalizing when translating into Tibetan (e.g with ཡག་).
Instead using the conditional for stating general truths might be good.
ཐུགས་སྤྲོ་ལ་རོགས་པ་མཉམ་དུ་འགྲོ་ན་སྐྱིད་ཤོས་རེད། To go to a party with friends is the most fun.
མོ་ཊ་བཏང་ནས་འགྲོ་ན་མགྱོགས་ཤོས་མ་རེད། Going by car is not the fastest way.
Reporting Without Verb After ཟེ་
In the recording the giraffe says:
ལུག་ནག་པོ་ལགས་ཀྱི་ཏག་ཏག་རེད་ཟེ། ཨ་ནི་ཁོང་ལ་འདྲི་བ་གལ་ཆེན་པོ་གཅིག་ཡོད་ཟེ་ལབ་སོང་།
Mr. Sheep said that was perfect and that he has an important question.
My question is: the second ཟེ་ does not need ལབ་སོང་། because the sentence continues?
Answer: exactly.
First Offering
Tibetan Offering First Portion ཕུད།
I have seen Tibetans offer the first portion of the food they are offering with Food Offering Prayer, they pinch a little bit of it and shoot it upwards with a flick of their fingers.
I didn’t understand exactly what was it but now it makes sense, after chatting with my Tibetan teacher about the preparations of ལོ་སར།, the Tibetan New Year. Some white pots arrived in the Tibet House and I wondered what were they for. They are actually to plant wheat (or barley) seeds during Losar: They offer the first harvest of the year. He told me ལོ་ཕུད། is the name for this offering, among others, (ལོ། = year, ཕུད། = first portion).
This ཕུད། is related to the aforementioned act of cutting a piece of food before the མཆོད་པ། and flicking it. It’s not a piece, it’s the best part of it.
During the morning of Losar, the first serving of the breakfast is offered:
Link to original
- ཆང་བསྐོལ། porridge made from fermented rice
- འབྲས་སིལ། rice with raisins, sugar
- གྲོ་མ། sweet potatoes
- བོད་ཇ། butter tea