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The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ [1]) 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 [2]), and finally the fundamental store-house consciousness ...
A key innovation of the Yogācāra school was the doctrine of eight consciousnesses. [1] These "eight bodies of consciousnesses" (aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ) are: the five sense-consciousnesses (of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and bodily sense), mentation (mano or citta), the defiled self-consciousness (kliṣṭamanovijñāna), [54] and ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... equivalent to English "-ness" ... everything we conceive of is the result of the working of the Eight Consciousnesses.
The Yogācārabhūmi is generally associated with the Indian Yogācāra school because it contains certain unique Yogācāra doctrines, like the eight consciousnesses and the ālaya-vijñāna (storehouse or foundational consciousness).
Manas-vijnana (Skt. "'मानस-विज्ञान"'; mānas-vijñāna; "mind-knowledge", compare man-tra, jñāna) is the seventh of the eight consciousnesses as taught in Yogacara and Zen Buddhism, the higher consciousness or intuitive consciousness that on the one hand localizes experience through thinking and on the other hand universalizes experience through intuitive perception of ...
(8) Nonconceptual wisdom is taught as the superior prajñā [within this division of cultivation]. (9) The nonabiding nirvāṇa is taught as the relinquishment that is the result of this [training]. (10) The three kāyas of a buddha—the svābhāvika[kāya], the sambhogakāya, and the nirmāṇakāya—are taught as the wisdom that is the ...
The beautiful mental factors (sobhana cetasikas) accompany the wholesome consciousnesses (kusala citta). The twenty-five beautiful mental factors (sobhana cetasikas) are: Nineteen universal beautiful mental factors (sobhanasādhāraṇa): Saddhā – faith; Sati – mindfulness; Hiri – shame at doing evil; Ottappa – regard for consequence
The Five Buddha Families and The Eight Consciousnesses. Boulder, CO, USA: Published by the Namo Buddha Seminar. Boulder, CO, USA: Published by the Namo Buddha Seminar. Source: [1] Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine (accessed: November 22, 2007)