84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ།

  • kun gzhi rnam par shes pa
  • ālayavijñāna
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  • subliminal cognition
  • ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ།
  • kun gzhi rnam par shes pa
  • ālayavijñāna
Definition in this text:

See Schmithausen’s groundbreaking work on the topic (1987 and 2014). Schmithausen considers the ālayavijñāna to be “a continuous subliminal form of mind” (Schmithausen 2014, p. 27).

1 Related glossary entries:

ཀུན་གཞི།

  • ālaya
  • all-ground
  • basis-of-all
  • subconsciousness
  • subliminal
  • substratum
  • substratum consciousness