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Wylie	nyob pa
Wylie Definition	Often understood to be the Tibetan word for 'being bored,' but seems rather to point to a desultory frame of mind, feeling bogged down and ineffectual (but geeze, I often feel that way when staring at this dictionary on the computer screen, and maybe that's what boredom is, after all). In Alex Berzin's transcribed talks, 'Buddhist Terminology,' he says there are no words in Tibetan (or, it would seem, in Sanskrit) for the notions of emotion, boredom and loneliness. He's surely wrong (the notion of emotion could, of course, be considered so culturally specific in its precise parameters that noone else could possibily have it, but then what is the point of making absolute cultural contrasts? Most of the emotional states known to us are to be found among the klezas, and with quite similar parameters of meaning.)
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