noun
store consciousness; alaya-vijnana
Buddhist term for the eighth consciousness, the deepest layer of mind that stores all karmic seeds and underlies all experience.
唯識思想では、阿頼耶識がすべての経験の基盤とされる。
In Yogacara thought, the store consciousness is considered the foundation of all experience.
阿頼耶識は、過去の業を種子と
The alaya-vijnana is said to store past karma as seeds.
From Sanskrit ālaya-vijñāna, translated into Chinese as 阿頼耶識 and adopted into Japanese. The exact derivation of the Chinese transliteration is uncertain.