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ས་བོན་ཐམས་ཅད་པའི་སེམས། | Glossary of Terms

    ས་བོན་ཐམས་ཅད་པའི་སེམས།

    sa bon thams cad pa’i sems

    sarvabījaṃ cittam

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Translation by Gregory Forgues
  • Mind containing all the seeds
  • ས་བོན་ཐམས་ཅད་པའི་སེམས།
  • sa bon thams cad pa’i sems
  • sarvabījaṃ cittam

Schmithausen translates this term with “all-seed mind,” which can mean both “mind containing all the seeds” or “mind consisting of all the seeds.” See Schmithausen 2014, p. 65, n. 221.