一切經音義 18.276

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阿賴耶 (Sanskrit; the name of the eighth consciousness. In Tang speech it is called 'storehouse consciousness' [ālaya-vijñāna], as it can store and hold all wholesome and unwholesome seeds, hence the name 'storehouse consciousness'. It is also called 'defiled-pure consciousness' or 'ādāna consciousness'. The Ghanavyūha-sūtra states: 'The ādāna consciousness is extremely subtle; all seeds are like a torrential flow. I do not expound it to ordinary people, fearing that they would conceptually grasp it as a self.')