Eight Consciousnesses | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-01-09

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00:00:36 1 The eightfold network of primary consciousnesses
00:02:50 2 Origins and development
00:03:00 2.1 Early Buddhist Texts ("EBTs")
00:04:14 2.1.1 Sautrāntika and Theravāda theories
00:05:02 2.2 Yogācāra
00:06:04 3 Vijñānāni
00:06:39 3.1 Ālayavijñāna
00:07:31 3.1.1 Role
00:09:09 3.1.2 Rebirth and purification
00:10:11 3.1.3 Tathagata-garbha thought
00:11:47 3.2 Transformations of consciousness
00:15:32 4 Understanding in Buddhist Tradition
00:15:43 4.1 China
00:15:51 4.1.1 Fǎzàng and Huayan
00:16:38 4.1.2 Chán
00:17:21 4.2 Korea
00:18:36 5 See also
00:18:59 6 Notes



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The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ) 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 (bīja) of future karma in this life and in the next after rebirth.