Store-consciousness

The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. aṣṭa-vijñāna-kāya) is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. They enumerate the five sense consciousnesses, supplemented by the mental consciousness (mano-vijñāna), the defiled mental consciousness (kliṣṭa-manas), and finally the fundamental store-house consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna), which is the basis of the other seven. This eighth consciousness is said to store the impressions (vasanas) of previous experiences, which form the seeds (bija) of future karma in this life and in the next after rebirth.

All surviving schools of Buddhist thought accept – "in common" – the existence of the first six primary consciousnesses (Sanskrit: vijñāna, Tibetan: རྣམ་ཤེས་, Wylie: rnam-shes). The internally coherent Yogācāra school associated with Maitreya, Asaṅga, and Vasubandhu, however, uniquely – or "uncommonly" – also posits the existence of two additional primary consciousnesses, kliṣṭamanas and ālayavijñāna, in order to explain the workings of karma. The first six of these primary consciousnesses comprise the five sensory faculties together with mental consciousness, which is counted as the sixth. According to Gareth Sparham,

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