tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18790794.post-56503732259490642432008-02-26T22:12:00.001-08:002008-06-13T13:21:59.137-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZDzA9gRAfOQ/R8T_XljUJbI/AAAAAAAAAeU/bLpjx_WIaM4/s1600-h/why_eighteen_elements_3.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZDzA9gRAfOQ/R8T_XljUJbI/AAAAAAAAAeU/bLpjx_WIaM4/s400/why_eighteen_elements_3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171539052810479026" border="0" /></a>This is the second part for why there are eighteen elements.<br /><br /><a href="http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/%27das_pa"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">འདས་པ། </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">'das pa</span></a> here means <span style="font-style: italic;">past</span>. དང་ <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">dang</span> is a con<span style="font-style: italic;">junctive particle</span>, translate it as '<span style="font-style: italic;">and</span>.'<br /><br /><span style="">ལྟར། </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">ltar</span> means <span style="font-style: italic;">likewise</span>. གྱི་ <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">gyi</span> is a <span style="font-style: italic;">genitive particle</span>.<br /><br /><span style="">ཉེ་བ།</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> nye ba</span> means <span style="font-style: italic;">close</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">to approach</span>. The ར <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">r</span> is a <span style="font-style: italic;">general sub-ordination particle</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/spyod_pa"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">སྤོད་པ།</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> spyod pa</span></a> is a word used in many contexts, here it's <span style="font-style: italic;">engagement</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">to enact</span>. Anyway, we need to read these two words together, as ཉེ་བར་སྤྱོད་པ། <a href="http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/nye_bar_spyod_pa"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">nye bar spyod pa</span></a> means <span style="font-style: italic;">to use</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">to enjoy</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/rnam_pa"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">རྣམ་པ། </span></span>rnam pa</a> </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here is <span style="font-style: italic;">division</span> or <span style="font-style: italic;">class</span>. དྲུག </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">drug</span> is number <span style="font-style: italic;">six</span>. འཛིན་པ། <a href="http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/%27dzin_pa"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> 'dzin pa</span></a> means <span style="font-style: italic;">grasp</span>, to <span style="font-style: italic;">hold on</span>. It has a genitive particle at the end, འི <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">'i. </span><span style="">ཕྱིར།</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><a href="http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/phyir"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">phyir</span></a> means <span style="font-style: italic;">because</span>, and this is a proper sentence ending so it ends with རོ <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">ro</span>.<br /><br />Anyway, I must confess that just looking at the Tibetan so far would be a very mysterious thing, unless one found out for example from a Sanskrit-Tibetan-Sanskrit dictionary that this all is really a translation for the following Sanskrit term: <span style="font-style: italic;">atitavartamanasadakaropabhogadharanata<br />.</span> What that word means is: the six consciousnesses, visual auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile and mental.<br /><br />Or, to puzzle this together, this is the <span style="font-style: italic;">parts of past and current experiences via the six consciousnesses</span>. As this adds together with the first twelve we mentioned earlier, we have eighteen elements.<br /><br />Next, about the twelve sense spheres.Kent Sandvikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16346226940219880822noreply@blogger.com