ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་པ notes.173

notes.173

173. “Consider me an equal”; obscure Tib. nyam bu shed. Lozang Jamspal: “It sounds like a saying we have in Ladakh, ‘Those kids know my measure.’ ” An equivalent Eng. idiom might be alt. “they have my number,” meaning, “they know me well enough to know what they can get away with.” The point seems to be that since they treat Ven. Ānanda as an equal, they cannot learn from him. The phrase may have its roots in the Tib. mnyam, “equal.”