ALAYA，阿赖耶

An abbreviation of Alaya-vijanana. Alaya 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 phenomenal， it fills the universe. It seems to be of the nature of materialism. It is the store or totality of consciousness both absolute and relative. It is described as the fundamental mind-consciousness of conscious beings， which lays hold of all the experience of the individual life， and which stores and holds the germs of all affairs. It is the last of Eighth Consciousness from which them Wisdom of Great Round Mirror is derived.