ཀུན་གཞི

JH-ENG, JH-C

basis-of-all

JH-OE

storehouse; hang on to; settling place

JH-SKT, YOGA

Alaya

JH-SKT

{LCh,L,ME}*

OT

[24] (AlAyaH) ? 1) 'du ba'i gnas dang bzed snod/ འདུ་བི་གནསདང་བསྣོད... 

2) gshis rgyud dam sems rgyud/ ... kun gzhi dul ba/ ... 3) kun gzhi'i rnam shes kyi bsdus tshig

JH-C

Comment: Often to be distinguished from kun gzhi rnam par shes pa (mind-*, AlayavijJAna), in which case kun gzhi refers to the seeds themselves and not the mind in which they reside.

DM

'all basis.' VijñAnavAda idea used, but not accepted as ultimate in, Rdzogs-chen thought. See 91 I 582.6 ff.; 367 II 133.1. kun gyi gzhi dang kun gzhi rnam shes. Chödag. Dung-dkar 87 1. ye don gyi kun gzhi. 2. sbyor ba don gyi kun gzhi. 3. bag chags sna tshogs pa'i kun gzhi. 4. bag chags lus kyi kun gzhi. Thondup BM 211-2.

JV, IW, RY

all-ground

JV

alaya, (universal, primal, common) ground, substratum-awareness, foundation of everything, stratum of all and everything, accounts for unity of being all ground, common comprehensive foundation of both samsara and nirvana, fundamental structuring of all experience spirit, primeval in a special sense, innermost essence, inherent nature * spirit, basis, mind, base of all, base, (sometimes synonymous with rang byung ye shes, byang chub sems, bon nyid), primordial base, universal ground of emptiness, the basis of everything, universal base consciousness

IW

1) collecting place, begging bowl; 

2) continuum of mind, one's nature; 

3) alaya [one of the 8 consciousnesses *, basis/ ground/ fundamental structuring of all [experience], the basic store of all consciousness) either samsaric or someties when purified = dharmadhatu. Sometimes aspects of alaya and alayvijnana are distinguished]

RB

basis/ ground of all (ordinary) experience

RY

alaya - *. Literally, the 'foundation of all things.' The basis of mind and both pure and impure phenomena. This word has different meanings in different contexts and should be understood accordingly. Sometimes it is synonymous with buddha nature or dharmakaya, the recognition of which is the basis for all pure phenomena; other times, as in the case of the 'ignorant *,' it refers to a neutral state of dualistic mind that has not been embraced by innate wakefulness and thus is the basis for samsaric experience. alaya 

1) *, basis of all, ground-of-all; gathering place, storehouse, ground of all (ordinary/ samsaric) experience; basis of everything, basic nature. 

2) abbr. of {ཀུན་གཞིའི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ}

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