སྒྲིབ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

Usually a reference to five hindrances: longing for sense pleasures (kāmacchanda), malice (vyāpāda), sloth and torpor (styānamiddha), excitement and remorse (auddhatya­kaukṛtya), and doubt (vicikitsā).

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.

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.

That which obscurs insight into reality.

Defilements that obstruct liberation and omniscience. This term refers both to affective and cognitive obscurations.

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).

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.

The five hindrances are sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, excitement and remorse, and doubt.

See “five hindrances.”

Defilements that obstruct liberation and omniscience. This term refers both to affective (or “afflictive”) and cognitive obscurations.