Alayavijnana, Ālayavijñāna, Alaya-vijnana: 5 definitions
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Alayavijnana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: Google Books: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical SystemsĀlayavijñāna (आलयविज्ञान) (Sanskrit; in Tibetan: kun gzhi rnam shes) — (lit. “Mind-basis-of-all”) — Among Cittamātrins following scripture, a foundational or “storehouse” consciousness that is the source of the other seven consciousnesses (six sense consciousnesses and a deluded consciousness) as well as their objects. It is the carrier of various cognitive and affective tendencies as well as of the seeds of karma, and it will be transformed at enlightenment into the gnosis of a buddha
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
General definition (in Buddhism)
Source: Google Books: Foundations of Indian PsychologyĀlayavijñāna (आलयविज्ञान) refers to the “all-ground consciousness” which is part of an eight-fold collection of personality in Buddhist Psychology.—The all-ground consciousness (ālayavijñāna) is the limited sphere of experience of a person that arises as a distorted view of the void sphere of reality (dharmadhātu) through dependent imputation. Ālayavijñāna forms the foundation for embodied cognition and defines the basic structure of all experiences. The vāsana and karmic tendencies (karmabīja) lead to a biased perspective and structuring, and thus provide a context for all experiences in this eight-fold collection.
Ālayavijñāna is also regarded as the store house of vāsanas and karmic tendencies (vāsanāparibhāvita and sarvabījaka). However, it is neither the permanent identity of a person nor a form of collective unconscious. Continuous build-up and discharge of karmic tendencies cause the ever-changing nature of ālaya-vijñāna. Though ālayavijñāna always provides the context to all experiences, a person in ordinary states of awareness does not become conscious of the subtle and direct experience of ālaya-vijñāna because the gross nature of functional consciousnesses dominates in such states.
Source: WikiPedia: BuddhismĀlayavijñāna (आलयविज्ञान) or Abhūtaparikalpa means “imagining the object to exist as independent of consciousness”. It is the basic concept in the Yogacara/Vijnanavada school which concept is identified as paratantrasvabhāva (dependent nature), the second of the three natures postulated by this school. [...] The concept of Ālayavijñāna or Abhūtaparikalpa arose, as a subliminal perception of the world, in response to the Abhidharmic developments of earlier Buddhist doctrines. It arose by means of twofold ever-present subtle objective support: (a) by the perception of inner appropriation and (b) by the outward perception of the receptacle world whose aspects are not clearly delineated.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryĀlayavijñāna (आलयविज्ञान).—(see ālaya, 1) connaissance-réceptacle (E. Lamotte, L'Ālayavijñāna [Le Réceptacle] dans le Mahāyāna-saṃgraha, Mél. chin. et boud., vol. 3, Brussels, 1935, 169 ff.), or basic, fundamental, underlying vijñāna: Mahāvyutpatti 2017, where ālaya = kun gzhi, ultimate basis, iden- tified sometimes with citta (Lévi, Asaṅga (Mahāyāna-sūtrālaṃkāra) i.18, n.2 in Transl.), and opp. to manas. Frequent in Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra; notably 2.13 (samudrataraṅgān avaloky) ālaya-vijñānodadhipravṛt- tivijñānapavanaviṣaye preritāṃs…cittāny avalokya, looking on the waves of the sea, stirred in the range (viṣaye) of the wind of the active vijñāna and the ocean of the basal vij., and looking on the minds (of the people there; ālaya-vi° is the ocean, pravṛtti-vi° the wind which stirs it; see under ālaya 1).
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Alaya, Vijnana.
Starts with: Alayavinnanam.
Full-text (+1): Alaya, Paramasena, Samyaksatya, Alayavinnanam, Pravrittivijnana, Gandavyuhasutra, Abhutaparikalpa, Vishaya, Tathagatagarbha, Mahayanasamparigrahashastra, kun gzhi rnam shes, Nanda, Klishta, Pratisamvedaka, Lankavatarasutra, Klishtamanas, Vasana, Samshabdita, Mind-basis-of-all, Ashraya.
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