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Where does “阿頼耶識” come from?

阿頼耶識 (Japanese) comes from Chinese 阿賴耶識, from Sanskrit [[आलय]][[विज्ञान]].

阿頼耶識 (Japanese): storehouse consciousness, forming the base of all...

Definitions

  1. storehouse consciousness, forming the base of all...

Ancestry of “阿頼耶識”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese阿賴耶識storehouse consciousness, last of the Eight...
2Sanskrit[[आलय]][[विज्ञान]]—
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