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ཀུན་གཞི། | Glossary of Terms
ཀུན་གཞི།
kun gzhi
ālaya
- Term
- Substratum
- ཀུན་གཞི།
- kun gzhi
- ālaya
The subtlemost form of deluded consciousness, which serves as the substratum for karmic seeds to be stored; likewise the substratum from which appearances manifest.
- Substratum
- ཀུན་གཞི།
- kun gzhi
- ālaya
The subtlemost form of deluded consciousness, which serves as the store-house for karmic seeds, therefore serving as the substratum from which appearances manifest.
- All-ground
- ཀུན་གཞི།
- kun gzhi
- ālaya
- Basis-of-all
- ཀུན་གཞི།
- kun gzhi
- ālaya
Here, probably the short form for ālayavijñāna.
- Subconsciousness
- ཀུན་གཞི།
- kun gzhi
- ālaya
Identifiable with ālayavijñāna. However, as reference to the elaborate Vijñānavādin psychology of the “store-consciousness” is out of place in this sūtra, it is here simply translated “subconsciousness.”
- Subliminal
- ཀུན་གཞི།
- kun gzhi
- ālaya
See “subliminal cognition.”
- Substratum consciousness
- ཀུན་གཞི།
- kun gzhi
- ālaya