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[[Image:Skycloudsun.jpg|thumb|350px|The sun covered by clouds, a common metaphor for [[buddha nature]] obscured by the obscurations]]'''Obscurations''' (Tib. ''drib pa'' | [[Image:Skycloudsun.jpg|thumb|350px|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=== | ===Subdivisions=== |
Latest revision as of 19:44, 8 December 2020
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