This particle, which is essentially a part of speech derived from the noun meaning “cause,” is used with a head noun that operates as an object or else as the subject of an intransitive verb. It often carries the modal meaning “to have to.”

• རྒྱ་གར་ནས་འབྱོར་རྒྱུའི་བླ་མ་རྣམས་འབྲས་སྤུངས་ལ་བཞུགས་ཀྱི་རེད། “The lamas who are to come from India will reside at Drepung.”
• གང་བསྐྱབས་པར་བྱ་རྒྱུའི་སེམས་ཅན་ལས་ངན་དེ་ལ་སྙིང་རྗེ་(བསྐྱེད་དགོས་)། “(One should generate) compassion for living beings with bad karma that are to be protected.”