Simple Words - THAMS CAD

OK, another one you will see a lot, thams cad, it means everything, all, the entire, totally, and so on. Examples of such cases are:

sems can thams cad -- all sentient beings (sems can)

sangs rgyas dang byang chub sems dpa' thams cad -- all buddhas (sangs rgyas) and bodhisattvas (byang chub sems dpa')

Hey, there are three other words you now learned, Buddha - sangs rgyas, bodhisattva - byang chub sems dpa', and sentient beings - sems can.

If you are worried how to pronounce the words, don't worry, think you are from Ladakh (or from parts of Mongolia where Tibetan is spoken) where the dialect actually pronounces all the letters in the word, unlike the Lhasa dialect). --Kent