- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- nivaraṇa
- āvaraṇa
- nīvaraṇa
- Term
The obscurations to liberation and omniscience. They are generally categorized as two types: affective obscurations (kleśāvaraṇa), the arising of afflictive emotions; and cognitive obscurations (jñeyāvaraṇa), those caused by misapprehension and incorrect understanding about the nature of reality.
The term is used also as a reference to a set five hindrances on the path: longing for sense pleasures (Skt. kāmacchanda), malice (Skt. vyāpāda), sloth and torpor (Skt. styānamiddha), excitement and remorse (Skt. auddhatyakaukṛtya), and doubt (Skt. vicikitsā).
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- āvaraṇa
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- nīvaraṇa
Usually a reference to five hindrances: longing for sense pleasures (kāmacchanda), malice (vyāpāda), sloth and torpor (styānamiddha), excitement and remorse (auddhatyakaukṛtya), and doubt (vicikitsā).
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- āvaraṇa
- nivaraṇa
The obscurations to liberation and omniscience. They are generally categorized as two types: affective obscurations (kleśāvaraṇa), the arising of afflictive emotions, and cognitive obscurations (jñeyāvaraṇa), those caused by misapprehension and incorrect understanding about the nature of reality.
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- nivaraṇa
In this sūtra it is stated that there are five obscurations. This must be referring to the list in the early Mahāyāna sūtra The Patience Trained by the Color of Space Sūtra: (1) desire’s craving; (2) malice; (3) dullness and sleepiness; (4) laziness and agitation; and (5) doubt.
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- nīvaraṇa
- 蓋
That which obscurs insight into reality.
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- āvaraṇa
- nivaraṇa
Defilements that obstruct liberation and omniscience. This term refers both to affective and cognitive obscurations.
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- āvaraṇa
Usually a reference to five hindrances: longing for sense pleasures (Skt. kāmacchanda), malice (Skt. vyāpāda), sloth and torpor (Skt. styānamiddha), excitement and remorse (Skt. auddhatyakaukṛtya), and doubt (Skt. vicikitsā).
- obscuration
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- āvaraṇa
The obscurations to liberation and omniscience. They are generally categorized as two types: afflictive obscurations (kleśāvaraṇa), the arising of afflictive emotions, and cognitive obscurations (jñeyāvaraṇa), those caused by misapprehension and incorrect understanding of the nature of reality.
- hindrance
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- nīvaraṇa
The five hindrances are sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, excitement and remorse, and doubt.
- hindrances
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- nīvaraṇa
See “five hindrances.”
- obscurations
- སྒྲིབ་པ།
- sgrib pa
- āvaraṇa
- nivaraṇa
Defilements that obstruct liberation and omniscience. This term refers both to affective (or “afflictive”) and cognitive obscurations.