All-ground consciousness

all-ground consciousness - alayavijñana [Skt.], kun shyi nampar shépa [Tib.]. Kun means ‘all’, shyi means ‘ground’, nampar shépa is ‘consciousness’. The Chittamatra and Svatantrika-Madhyamika schools posit eight types of consciousness. The all-ground consciousness is the eighth consciousness. There are three mental consciousnesses, of which two are active (the sixth and seventh) and one is inactive (the eighth).