basis-of-all; storehouse; hang on to; settling place Comment: Often to be distinguished from kun gzhi rnam par shes pa (mind-basis-of-all, ālayavijñāna), in which case kun gzhi refers to the seeds themselves and not the mind in which they reside.
alaya 1) all-ground, basis of all, ground-of-all; gathering place, storehouse, ground of all (ordinary/ samsaric) experience; basis of everything, basic nature. 2) abbr. of {kun gzhi'i rnam par shes pa}, {kun gzhi rnam par shes pa}
alaya - all-ground. Literally, the 'foundation of all things.' The basis of mind and both pure and impure phenomena. This word has different meanings in different contexts and should be understood accordingly. Sometimes it is synonymous with buddha nature or dharmakaya, the recognition of which is the basis for all pure phenomena; other times, as in the case of the 'ignorant all-ground,' it refers to a neutral state of dualistic mind that has not been embraced by innate wakefulness and thus is the basis for samsaric experience
all-ground
<term> all-ground, basis-of-all, subconsciousness, subliminal, substratum, substratum consciousness