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consciousness as the basis/ ground of all (ordinary) experience; conscious aspect of the basis/ ground of all experience [RB]
karmic obscurations ([[las kyi sgrib pa]]).


[[all-ground]] consciousness; syn. for cognition [[sems]] [RY]
The 'veil of karma' is the inability to perceive the truths because of having committed such things as the five acts with immediate result or having abandoned the Dharma. [RY]


alayavijnana [one of the 8 consciousnesses, unobscured or neutral [by intrinsic good or bad karma in particular] [[ma bsgribs lung ma bstan]] principal consciousness the ground of one's allotted habitual patterns [[bag chags]] [[kyi]] [[bgo gzhi]] support of all the ripned ones and seeds and its real essence being rig pa [understanding, awareness, insight. all-ground consciousness. said to be ordinary, but also said to be the ground of both samsara and nirvana. Sometimes aspects of alaya and alayavijnana are distinguished] [IW]
SA [[kun gzhi rnam shes]] [JV]
alaya-vijnana; all-ground consciousness, as one of the eight collections of cognitions; consciousness as ground of all (ordinary/ samsaric) experience; abbr. of [[kun gzhi'i rnam par shes pa]]
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karmic obscurations (las kyi sgrib pa).

The 'veil of karma' is the inability to perceive the truths because of having committed such things as the five acts with immediate result or having abandoned the Dharma. [RY]