gdam pa

instructions, teaching, advice, counsel, directions, formal instructions [JV]

useful/ oral instruction, advice, direction, precepts [IW]

spiritual advice/ instruction [RB]

instruction; oral instruction, advice, direction, precepts, spiritual advice, spiritual instruction. Ex. gnad kyi gdams ngag essential advice [RY]

[MSS: Skrt. avavada, upadesha] instruction; oral instruction, advice, direction, precepts, spiritual advice, spiritual instruction. Ex. gnad kyi gdams ngag essential advice. MSS: compare with man ngag (upadesha). [mss] [RY]