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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. སྒྲིབ་པ་, ''drib pa''; [[Wyl.]] ''sgrib pa'') — what hinders us from realizing our true nature.

===Subdivisions===
*[[two obscurations]]: [[emotional obscurations|emotional]] and [[cognitive obscurations|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

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