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Avarana (आवरण) is a
Sanskrit term that
translates as 'covering' or 'obstruction'. It is
considered to be one of the
three defects of the mind that hinder...
- to samadhi. They are part of the two
types of
obstructions (Sanskrit:
āvaraṇa), i.e. the
obstacles to Buddhahood. The two
types of
obstructions are afflictive...
- and his many nav
Avaranas No
discussion of the Dik****ar can
ignore his Sri-vidyA
upAsana and his nav
Avarana pujA. Indeed, the nav
Avarana structure is NOT...
- of the two
Buddhist obscurations of
defilements (klesha
avarana) and
knowledge (jneya
avarana) that
obstruct the path of enlightenment." The
kartika is...
- emotions" (Sanskrit: kleśa-
avaraṇa, Wylie: nyon-mongs-pa'i sgrib-ma) and the "obscuration
concerning the knowable" (Sanskrit: jñeya-
avaraṇa, Wylie: shes-bya'i...
- His wife
Shantala also
works for
Samskrita Bharati. His
translation of
Avarana took six
months and was
released in
November 2008. His
Kannada book Matte...
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Kambhoji in the dative,
Bhairavi in the
ablative and so on. The
ninth avarana kriti in
Ahiri has all the cases; the raga
itself has all the 22 Sruti...
- (anta); it
contains five chapters:
Attributes (laksana),
Obscurations (
āvarana),
Reality (tattva),
Cultivation of
Antidotes (pratipakṣa-bhāvanā) and the...
-
equipoise (samāhita, mnyam-bzhag), and as
freedom from the five
obstructions (
āvaraṇa, sgrib-pa). It may also
result in the
siddhis of
clairvoyance (abhijñā...
- apratiṣṭhita-nirvana in the
context of
discussing the
severing of
mental obstacles (
avarana): This
severing is the apratiṣṭhita-nirvana of the bodhisattva. It has...
