]> 2026-10-15T19:38:37-04:00 Key Terms/āvaraṇa 0 en āvaraṇa āvaraṇa Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (''sgrib gnyis''): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. ''kleśāvaraṇa'', Tib. ''nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa'') and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. ''jñeyāvaraṇa'', Tib. ''shes bya'i sgrib pa''). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. See page 83: In Sanskrit and Pāli, “obstruction,” “obstacle,” or “hindrance.” In Mahāyāna literature, two types of āvaraṇa are commonly described: “obstructions that are the afflictions,” or “afflictive obstructions” (kleśāvaraṇa), and cognitive or noetic obstructions, viz., “obstructions to omniscience” (jñeyāvaraṇa). Śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas can be freed from the afflictive obstructions, but only bodhisattvas are able to free themselves from the cognitive obstructions. In the Yogācāra system, the cognitive obstructions result from fundamental misapprehensions about the nature of reality. आवरण obscurations obscurations veils obscuration obstruction obscuration āvaraṇa Noun drip pa āgantukamala āvaraṇa Sanskrit སྒྲིབ་པ་ obscurations sgrib pa āvaraṇa;āvaraṇa;obscurations;obscurations; defilements; 2020-01-08T20:38:14Z 2458857.3598843 2020-01-08T20:38:14Z 2458857.3598843 true āvaraṇa āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (''sgrib gnyis''): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. ''kleśāvaraṇa'', Tib. ''nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa'') and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. ''jñeyāvaraṇa'', Tib. ''shes bya'i sgrib pa''). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་ Key Terms/āvaraṇa obscurations defilements āvaraṇa Āvaraṇa 0 1 plainlist 2 [[BuNayTopicTags::Key Terms/āvaraṇa]] āvaraṇa# QUERYe6e750bcb4d0982705c29c8d7559134c 0 1 plainlist 3 [[Category:People]] [[AssociateToTerm::~"āvaraṇa"]] āvaraṇa# QUERYeff466b37f857bebddb2b4af8a51ef95 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Āvaraṇa]] āvaraṇa# QUERY442a90b662e5c2da60bee47c947c0096 0 200 1 template 4 [[BuNayPageType::Book]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000001-QINU`"']] āvaraṇa# QUERYdeaccb987dd73a9eefb126422095761d 0 200 1 template 4 [[BuNayPageType::Article]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000002-QINU`"']] āvaraṇa# QUERYca419075ebfe68da31b2ef7f9c9e4e8a 0 200 1 template 5 [[BuNayPageType::Tibetan Text||Sanskrit Text]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000003-QINU`"']] āvaraṇa# QUERY450af136e4f541a6a0b5c881abecf8fc 0 200 1 template 4 [[BuNayPageType::Interview]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000004-QINU`"']] āvaraṇa# QUERYed0e04464967f795aff30382a134314a 0 200 1 template 5 [[BuNayPageType::Audio||Video]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000005-QINU`"']] āvaraṇa# QUERY36b2b0d75c1aa29248be4fc8dc46d428 Āvaraṇa 0 en Āvaraṇa REDI 102 en REDI