]> 2026-10-12T09:38:25-04:00 Key Terms/kun gzhi 0 en kun gzhi kun gzhi Although it is commonly used as an abbreviation of ''ālayavijñāna'' (''kun gzhi'i rnam shes''), in later Tibetan traditions, particularly that of the Kagyu and the Nyingma, it came to denote an ultimate or pure basis of mind, as opposed to the ordinary, deluded consciousness represented by the ālayavijñāna. Alternatively, in the Jonang tradition, this pure version is referred to as ''ālaya-wisdom'' (''kun gzhi'i ye shes''). आलय universal ground all basis substratum ground-of-all all-ground basis-of-all universal ground kun gzhi Noun kunzhi gzhi ālaya Tibetan ཀུན་གཞི་ universal ground In his ''Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle'', Rongzompa states, ཐེག་པ་གོང་མའི་ཚུལ་ལས་ནི།་ཀུན་གཞིའི་མཚན་ཉིད་གདོད་མ་ནས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཞེས་བྱ་བལ་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་དང་གནས་ངན་ལེན་གྱི་བག་ཆགས་ནི་གློ་བུར་གྱི་དྲི་མ་སྟེ་གསེར་གཡས་གཡོགས་པའམི་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་འདམ་དུ་སྦུབས་པ་བཞིན་ཡོན་ཏན་ཅུང་ཟད་མི་སྣང་བར་ཟད་དེལ་རང་བཞིན་ཉམས་པར་བྱས་པ་མེད་དོ། "In the higher vehicles, the characteristic of the ālaya [''kun gzhi''] is that it is the primordial awakened mind [''bodhicitta'']. The afflictions and the imprints that lead to birth in the lower realms are adventitious obscurations, like oxide covering gold, or dirt covering a precious jewel. Although the buddha qualities are temporarily hidden, their nature is not defiled." -Translated in Sam van Schaik. ''Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Approaches to Dzogchen Practice in Jigme Lingpa's Longchen Nyingtig''. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004: p. 63. In his ''Treasury of Words and Meanings'', Longchenpa defines four types of ''kun gzhi'': the primordial universal ground (''ye don gyi kun gzhi''), the linking universal ground (''sbyor ba don gyi kun gzhi''), the universal ground of varied karmic propensities (''bags sna tshogs pa'i kun gzhi''), and the universal ground of the karmic propensities(-derived) body (''bag chags lus kyi kun gzhi''). -David F. Germano and William S. Waldron. "A Comparison of Ālaya-Vijñāna in Yogācāra and Dzogchen." In ''Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research: Transcending Boundaries''. New York: Routledge, 2006: p. 53. kun gzhi kun gzhi;kun gzhi;universal ground;kun gzhi; kunzhi; kunshi; all-ground; ālaya; 2019-11-21T22:19:23Z 2458809.4301273 2019-11-21T22:19:23Z 2458809.4301273 true kun gzhi kun gzhi - Although it is commonly used as an abbreviation of ''ālayavijñāna'' (''kun gzhi'i rnam shes''), in later Tibetan traditions, particularly that of the Kagyu and the Nyingma, it came to denote an ultimate or pure basis of mind, as opposed to the ordinary, deluded consciousness represented by the ālayavijñāna. Alternatively, in the Jonang tradition, this pure version is referred to as ''ālaya-wisdom'' (''kun gzhi'i ye shes''). Skt. आलय Tib. ཀུན་གཞི་ Key Terms/kun gzhi kun gzhi kunzhi kunshi all-ground ālaya Kun gzhi 0 1 plainlist 2 [[BuNayTopicTags::Key Terms/kun gzhi]] kun gzhi# QUERY73c970b4fff91c9fe02e1e1b9eaa24eb 0 1 plainlist 3 [[Category:People]] [[AssociateToTerm::~"kun gzhi"]] kun gzhi# QUERY779845cd019faaa4779b171bd7866fa1 0 200 1 template 2 [[BuNayTopicTags::Key Terms/kun gzhi]] kun gzhi# QUERYf8a70c3bab4ef8a4c0e890ae1f59b674 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Kun gzhi]] kun gzhi# QUERY8593cba91f0c2fb5c07719ddd324eef8 0 200 1 template 4 [[BuNayPageType::Book]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000001-QINU`"']] kun gzhi# QUERYdeaccb987dd73a9eefb126422095761d 0 200 1 template 4 [[BuNayPageType::Article]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000002-QINU`"']] kun gzhi# QUERYca419075ebfe68da31b2ef7f9c9e4e8a 0 200 1 template 5 [[BuNayPageType::Tibetan Text||Sanskrit Text]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000003-QINU`"']] kun gzhi# QUERY450af136e4f541a6a0b5c881abecf8fc 0 200 1 template 4 [[BuNayPageType::Interview]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000004-QINU`"']] kun gzhi# QUERYed0e04464967f795aff30382a134314a 0 200 1 template 5 [[BuNayPageType::Audio||Video]] [[BuNayTopicTags::'"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000005-QINU`"']] kun gzhi# QUERY36b2b0d75c1aa29248be4fc8dc46d428 Articles/Grounds of Buddha-Nature in Tibet 0 en Grounds of Buddha-Nature in Tibet Media/Khenpo Tamphel at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium 0 en Khenpo Tamphel at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium Books/Luminous Heart 0 en Luminous Heart Books/The Philosophical Foundations of Classical rDzogs Chen in Tibet 0 en The Philosophical Foundations of Classical rDzogs Chen in Tibet Key Terms/kunshi 0 en Key Terms/kunshi BuNayTopicTags 102 en BuNayTopicTags REDI 102 en REDI