Eight Consciousnesses
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Eight Consciousnesses
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The Eight Consciousnesses is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism. They enumerate the five sense consciousnesses, supplemented by the mental consciousness (manovijñāna), the defiled mental consciousness (kliṣṭamanovijñāna), and finally the fundamental store-house consciousness (ālāyavijñāna), which is the basis of the other seven. This eighth consciousness is said to store the impressions (vāsanāḥ) of previous experiences, which form the seeds (
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Types of consciousness in Mahayana Buddhism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Consciousnesses
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2003-08-13T10:54:05Z
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2024-09-04T02:02:55Z
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