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Thus, although the Chittamatra (Mind-Only) tenet system also uses the term alaya, as in “alayavijnana” (all-encompassing foundation consciousness), we need great care not to commit the same mistake regarding alaya that the Chittamatra system makes.
Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 2 Eliminating Confusion about the Practice of the Path Beru Khyentse Rinpoche 2006
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Gelug does not apply the term alaya to clear-light mental activity.
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The dzogchen formulation of appearances as the play of the mind often employs Chittamatra terminology, such as alaya (kun-gzhi, basis for all) and eight types of consciousness.
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Although the Nyingma tradition of Madhyamaka accepts in its description of superficial truth (dealing with sem) many of the categories of phenomena used in Chittamatra – such as alaya, disturbing awareness, and reflexive awareness (rang-rig) – Nyingma asserts their manner of existence and certain characteristics of them differently.
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There are two ways of explaining the term all-encompassing basis (kun-gzhi, Skt. alaya; foundation of all) in this line.
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To me, maybe there is a God or other sort of ultimate reality (google for alaya vinyana) that conditions which worlds really exist, or maybe there are the multitudes of worlds imagined by some and we just lucked out.
Do Atheists Exist? Sean 2008
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We can gain realization of the unified pair of superficial and deepest truths only by realizing their common basis, which is voidness [mind-itself as awareness-voidness and clarity-voidness, the all-encompassing alaya foundation for everything].
Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 3 Meditation Practice Beru Khyentse Rinpoche 2006
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Within the inseparability of everything in primordial voidness, [mind-itself as Svabhavakaya, the inseparability of the two truths], is the alaya all-encompassing foundation of everything.
Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 3 Meditation Practice Beru Khyentse Rinpoche 2006
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Disturbing awareness (nyon-yid, deluded awareness, defiled awareness) accompanies the alaya for habits, and both it and the alaya for habits are considered as types of primary consciousness.
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Another name for the causal alaya continuum is the “ultimate alaya” (mthar-thug-gi kun-gzhi, ultimate all-encompassing foundation).
Relationships between Two Objects in Anuttarayoga Tantra 2006
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