Obscurations

The sun covered by clouds, a common metaphor for buddha nature obscured by the obscurations

Obscurations (Skt. āvaraṇa; Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་, drib pa, Wyl. sgrib pa) — what hinders us from realizing our true nature.

Subdivisions

• two obscurations: emotional and cognitive
• three obscurations, if habitual obscurations, an extremely subtle form of cognitive obscurations, are added to the previous two
• four obscurations: if karmic obscurations are added to the previous three obscurations