The origin of Alaya-vijnana

...In other words, the ultimate cause is ignorance, and the continuum of twelve causal chains, with birth, aging, and death as the final results, is the state of being of us sentient beings, and there is no fixed, substantial self (atman) there. This twelve-fold dependent origination, which has been preached since early Buddhism, is called "karma-sense dependent origination," and it is sometimes collectively called the four kinds of dependent origination together with the "alaya-vijnana dependent origination" of the Yogacara-Victim School of Mahayana, the "Tathagata-garbha dependent origination" of the Tathagata-garbha thought, and the "dharma-realm dependent origination" of the Kegon School. [Yokoyama Koichi]
[Good luck in Japan]
There are various interpretations of the meaning of the word "engi," and tracing their evolution is like explaining the history of Buddhist teachings.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Alaya-vijnana-pratītyasamutpāda" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…すなわち無明を究極原因とし，生･老死を最終結果とする十二の因果の連続体がわれわれ有情（うじよう）のあり方であり，そこにはなんら固定的･実体的な自我(アートマン)は存在しないという。原始仏教いらい説かれるこの十二支縁起を〈業感縁起〉といい，これと，大乗の瑜伽行唯識派の〈阿頼耶識縁起〉，如来蔵思想の〈如来蔵縁起〉，華厳宗の〈法界縁起〉とをあわせて四種縁起とよぶことがある。【横山 紘一】
［日本における縁起］
　〈縁起〉の語義の解釈には諸説があり，その推移をたどることはさながら仏教教説史を説くことになる。…

※「阿頼耶識縁起」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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