Nine bonds

Nine bonds (Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ་དགུ་, küntu jorwa gu, Wyl. kun tu sbyor ba dgu) — nine bonds which are obscurations to liberation. They are mentioned in Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes:

There are nine characteristics of destructive emotions—

The bonds that are obscurations [II.1d-2a]

In his commentary on this verse, Mipham Rinpoche explains them to be:

• Ignorance
• Desire
• Anger
• Pride
• Doubt
• Wrong view
• Belief in supremacy
• Envy
• Miserliness