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There are 7 total results for your 阿赖耶 search.

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阿賴耶


阿赖耶

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ā lài yé
    a1 lai4 ye2
a lai yeh
 araya

More info & calligraphy:

Alaya
ālaya, an abode, resting-place (hence Himālaya, the storehouse of snow), intp. as 無沒 non-disappearing, perhaps non-melting, also as 藏 store. Other forms are 阿利耶 (or 阿梨耶, 阿黎耶, or 阿羅耶); also 賴 or 梨耶. Any of these terms is used in abbreviation for Ālaya-vijñāna.

阿賴耶識


阿赖耶识

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ā lài yé shì
    a1 lai4 ye2 shi4
a lai yeh shih
 araya shiki
ālaya-vijñāna. 'The receptacle intellect or consciousness;' 'the orginating or receptacle intelligence;' 'basic consciousness' (Keith). It is the store or totality of consciousness, both absolute and relative, impersonal in the whole, temporally personal or individual in its separated parts, always reproductive. It is described as 有情根本之心識 the fundamental mind-consciousness of conscious beings, which lays hold of all the experiences of the individual life: and which as storehouse holds the germs 種子 of all affairs; it is at the root of all experience, of the skandhas, and of all things on which sentient beings depend for existence. Mind is another term for it, as it both stores and gives rise to all seeds of phenomena and knowledge. It is called 本識 original mind, because it is the root of all things; 無沒識 inexhaustible mind, because none of its seeds (or products) is lost; 現識 manifested mind, because all things are revealed in or by it; 種子識 seeds mind, because from it spring all individualities, or particulars; 所知依識 because it is the basis of all knowledge; 異熟識 because it produces the rounds of morality, good and evil karma, etc.; 執持識 or 阿陀那 q.v., that which holds together, or is the seed of another rebirh, or phenomena, the causal nexus; 第一識 the prime or supreme mind or consciousness; 宅識 abode (of) consciousness; 無垢識 unsullied consciousness when considered in the absolute, i.e. the Tathāgata; and 第八識, as the last of the eight vijñānas. There has been much discussion as to the meaning and implications of the ālaya-vijñāna. It may also be termed the unconscious, or unconscious absolute, out of whose ignorance or unconsciousness rises all consciousness.

阿賴耶外道


阿赖耶外道

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ā lài yé wài dào
    a1 lai4 ye2 wai4 dao4
a lai yeh wai tao
 araya gedō
The ālaya heresy, one of the thirty heretical sects named in the 大日經, 住心, chapter 1, that the ālaya is a sort of eternal substance or matter, creative and containing all forms; when considered as a whole, it is non-existent, or contains nothing; when considered 'unrolled,' or phenomenal, it fills the universe. It seems to be of the nature of materialism as opposed to the idealistic conception of the ālaya-vijñāna.

種子阿賴耶識


种子阿赖耶识

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zhǒng zǐ ā lài yé shì
    zhong3 zi3 a1 lai4 ye2 shi4
chung tzu a lai yeh shih
 shuji araiyashiki
the consciousness that is the store of the seeds

未建立阿賴耶識


未建立阿赖耶识

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wèi jiàn lì ā lài yé shì
    wei4 jian4 li4 a1 lai4 ye2 shi4
wei chien li a lai yeh shih
 mi kenryū araya shiki
without having posited [the existence of] the store consciousness

那阿賴耶曼荼羅


那阿赖耶曼荼罗

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nà ā lài yé màn tú luó
    na4 a1 lai4 ye2 man4 tu2 luo2
na a lai yeh man t`u lo
    na a lai yeh man tu lo
 na araiya mandara
nālaya-maṇḍala, the non-ālayamaṇḍala, or the 道場 bodhi-site or seat, which is 無依處 without fixed place, independent of place, and entirely pure.

一切種子阿賴耶識


一切种子阿赖耶识

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yī qiè zhǒng zǐ ā lài yé shì
    yi1 qie4 zhong3 zi3 a1 lai4 ye2 shi4
i ch`ieh chung tzu a lai yeh shih
    i chieh chung tzu a lai yeh shih
 issai shuji araiyashiki
store consciousness that contains all seeds

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 7 results for "阿赖耶" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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