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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 ...
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 ...
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The seventh consciousness developed from the early Buddhist concept of manas, and was seen as the defiled mentation (kliṣṭa-manas) which is obsessed with notions of "self". According to Paul Williams , this consciousness "takes the substratum consciousness as its object and mistakenly considers the substratum consciousness to be a true Self."
"The Foundation on the Fivefold Group of Empirical Consciousness" provides a phenomenological analysis of the five sensory consciousnesses (the visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile forms of consciousness), in terms of five points, their bases (āśraya), nature , foci , accompanying mental states (sahaya) and functioning . [22]
The ninth and final consciousness, known as the Buddha nature (or Namu-myoho-renge-kyo [3] [13]), forms the foundations for one's life. It is the amala-consciousness, meaning the "purest", [ 4 ] and cannot be tarnished by any of the karmic energy from the previous eight levels. [ 3 ]
The eightfold path is a Buddhist guideline for living ethically and cultivating a world that brings an end to the causes of suffering. The eight steps are: Right view. Right intention.
"Buddhism is a method for purifying the stream of consciousness from 'contaminations' and 'defilements.'" "Each individual has eight types of consciousness, but Enlightenment (or Awakening) requires overturning their basis, such that consciousness (vijñaana) is 'turned' into unmediated cognition (jñaana)."