གཞས་མ།
ཚེ་དབང་ལྷ་མོ།
Singer: Tsewang Lhamo
གཞས།
བརྩེ་དུང་གི་རྔོན་པ།
Song: "Hunt For Empathy"
འཛུམ་པའི་ཟུར་མིག་རྣོན་པོ།
གཞུ་ལས་ཤོར་བའི་མདའ་རེད།
གཟུར་བའི་ལུས་པོ་མྱུར་ཡང།
སྙིང་གི་འབེན་ལ་ཕོག་སོང།
Sharp, blinking,
sidelong glances
These are the arrows
slipping from the bow;
Though the body is
swift to avoid them
An arrow has struck
its heart
རྫུ་མེད་ཚོར་བ་རྗེན་བུ།
སྤང་ནས་འདྲོགས་པའི་ཤེའུ་རེད།
ཤེའུ་ཡི་གོམ་ལག་མྱུར་ཡང།
ཞེན་པའི་གཡང་ལ་ལྷུང་སོང།
Raw feelings without
artifice
Such is the deer startled
from its meadow;
Though its gallop is
swift
It has fallen into
the chasm of yearning
མདའ་ནི་དུག་མདའ་མིན་ཡང།
སྙིང་ལ་རྨ་ཁ་བཟོས་སོང།
ཤིའུ་ནི་རྨས་མ་མིན་རུང།
ཁ་ནས་སྡུག་སྐད་འཆོར་སོང།
The arrow was not
poison
Yet, it left an open wound
on the heart;
Even if the deer has not been injured
It has cried out in
pain
མདའ་གཞུ་འཁུར་བའི་རྔོན་པར།
སྙིང་རྗེ་ཅུང་ཟད་ཡོད་ན།
གར་འགྲོ་མེད་པའི་ཤེའུ་ལ།
གོམ་གསུམ་འགྲོ་དབང་གནང་རོགས།
གོམ་གསུམ་འགྲོ་དབང་གནང་རོགས།
Oh hunter carrying your
bow and arrow!
If you have even the
slightest compassion
For the deer with
nowhere to go
Please let it take
three steps
Please let it take
three steps
(Repeated from the
beginning)
Note: Though the song is explicitly about a hunter and a deer, it seems to me that it might be a song of love and heartbreak, with the hunter representing a man who has seduced a woman yet is apparently causing her some dramatic heartache. There are lots of reference to the heart in this song, as well as mentions of "feelings" and "yearning" and some indications that the arrows here might be merely metaphorical. Even the word བརྩེ་དུང་ (tsey dung) in the title, which I have translated as "empathy", is often understood as "love" in the romantic sense--I've translated it as empathy because it seems to go with the general sense of the song, especially considering the call for compassion in the last verse.
As a final note, I am not sure what the significance of "three steps" is in the final verse or what it may be referring to; one dictionary entry tells me it is a metaphor for "the heavens, earth, and the nether region", but that makes little sense here. It seems unusual to specify the number of steps as three without there being a reason, but it just adds to the mystique of the song here which might be appropriate after all.
Note: Though the song is explicitly about a hunter and a deer, it seems to me that it might be a song of love and heartbreak, with the hunter representing a man who has seduced a woman yet is apparently causing her some dramatic heartache. There are lots of reference to the heart in this song, as well as mentions of "feelings" and "yearning" and some indications that the arrows here might be merely metaphorical. Even the word བརྩེ་དུང་ (tsey dung) in the title, which I have translated as "empathy", is often understood as "love" in the romantic sense--I've translated it as empathy because it seems to go with the general sense of the song, especially considering the call for compassion in the last verse.
As a final note, I am not sure what the significance of "three steps" is in the final verse or what it may be referring to; one dictionary entry tells me it is a metaphor for "the heavens, earth, and the nether region", but that makes little sense here. It seems unusual to specify the number of steps as three without there being a reason, but it just adds to the mystique of the song here which might be appropriate after all.
