ālaya-vijñāna (2968)

ālaya-vijñāna
Entry 2968, Page 106, Col. 1

(AlayavijYAna, Alaya-vijYAna)
ālaya-vijñāna¦ (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: Mvy 2017, where ālaya = kun gzhi, ultimate basis, iden- tified sometimes with citta (Lévi, Sūtrāl. i.18, n.2 in Transl.), and opp. to manas. Frequent in Laṅk; 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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