Articles by alphabetic order
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
 Ā Ī Ñ Ś Ū Ö Ō
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0


Difference between revisions of "The eight consciousnesses"

From Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with "thumb|250px| <poem> The eight consciousnesses, or more literally, eight collections of consciousness (Skt. aṣṭavijñānakāya; Tib. རྣམ་...")
 
 
(2 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 
[[File:144gination.jpg|thumb|250px|]]
 
[[File:144gination.jpg|thumb|250px|]]
<poem>
+
The [[eight consciousnesses]], or more literally, eight collections of [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[aṣṭavijñānakāya]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་ཤེས་ཚོགས་བརྒྱད]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[Wyl.]] [[rnam shes tshogs brgyad]]) are mentioned in the writings of the [[Mind Only]] school.
The eight consciousnesses, or more literally, eight collections of consciousness (Skt. aṣṭavijñānakāya; Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་ཚོགས་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. rnam shes tshogs brgyad) are mentioned in the writings of the Mind Only school.  
 
  
The six consciousnesses
+
The [[six consciousnesses]]
 +
 
 +
# [[Visual]] (or [[eye]]) [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[cakṣur-vijñana]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མིག་གི་རྣམ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[mig gi rnam shes]])
 +
# [[Auditory]] (or {{Wiki|ear}}) [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[śrotra-vijñana]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣ་བའི་རྣམ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[rna ba'i rnam shes]])
 +
# {{Wiki|Olfactory}} (or {{Wiki|nose}}) [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[ghrāṇa-vijñana]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྣའི་རྣམ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[sna'i rnam shes]])
 +
# {{Wiki|Gustatory}} (or {{Wiki|tongue}}) [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[jihva-vijñana]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ལྕེའི་རྣམ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[lce'i rnam shes]])
 +
# {{Wiki|Tactile}} (or [[body]]) [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[kāya-vijñana]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ལུས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[lus kyi rnam shes]])
 +
# [[Mental]] (or [[mind]]) [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[mano-vijñana]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཡིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[yid kyi rnam shes]])
  
    Visual (or eye) consciousness (Skt. cakṣur-vijñana; Tib. མིག་གི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, mig gi rnam shes)
 
    Auditory (or ear) consciousness (Skt. śrotra-vijñana; Tib. རྣ་བའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, rna ba'i rnam shes)
 
    Olfactory (or nose) consciousness (Skt. ghrāṇa-vijñana; Tib. སྣའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, sna'i rnam shes)
 
    Gustatory (or tongue) consciousness (Skt. jihva-vijñana; Tib. ལྕེའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, lce'i rnam shes)
 
    Tactile (or body) consciousness (Skt. kāya-vijñana; Tib. ལུས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, lus kyi rnam shes)
 
    Mental (or mind) consciousness (Skt. mano-vijñana; Tib. ཡིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, yid kyi rnam shes)
 
 
[[File:204 crop380w.jpg|thumb|250px|]]
 
[[File:204 crop380w.jpg|thumb|250px|]]
The seventh and eighth consciousness
 
  
To the six consciousnesses mentioned in the Abhidharma texts of the basic vehicle are added:
+
The seventh and [[eighth consciousness]]
 +
 
 +
To the [[six consciousnesses]] mentioned in the [[Abhidharma]] texts of the [[basic vehicle]] are added:
 +
 
 +
: 7. {{Wiki|Defiled}} [[mental]] [[consciousness]] or [[emotional]] [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[kliṣṭamanas]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཉོན་ཡིད]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[Wyl.]] [[nyon yid]]) and
 +
: 8. All-ground [[consciousness]] (Skt. [[ālaya vijñāna]]; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[kunshyi namshé]]; [[Wyl.]] [[kun gzhi rnam shes]]).
 +
 
 +
[[Transformation]] into [[Five Wisdoms]]
  
    7.  Defiled mental consciousness or emotional consciousness (Skt. kliṣṭamanas; Tib. ཉོན་ཡིད་, Wyl. nyon yid) and
+
According to [[Mipham Rinpoche]], the [[eight consciousnesses]] [[transform]] into the [[five wisdoms]] in the following way:
    8.  All-ground consciousness (Skt. ālaya vijñāna; Tib. ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, kunshyi namshé; Wyl. kun gzhi rnam shes).
 
  
Transformation into Five Wisdoms
+
# [[Alaya]] transforms into the [[wisdom]] of [[dharmadhatu]].
 +
# [[Alaya consciousness]] transforms into mirror-like [[wisdom]].
 +
# [[Emotional]] [[consciousness]] transforms into [[wisdom]] of equality.
 +
# [[Mental]] [[consciousness]] transforms into the [[wisdom]] of [[discernment]].
 +
# Five [[sense]] [[consciousnesses]] [[transform]] into the all-accomplishing [[wisdom]].
  
According to Mipham Rinpoche, the eight consciousnesses transform into the five wisdoms in the following way:
 
  
    Alaya transforms into the wisdom of dharmadhatu.
 
    Alaya consciousness transforms into mirror-like wisdom.
 
    Emotional consciousness transforms into wisdom of equality.
 
    Mental consciousness transforms into the wisdom of discernment.
 
    Five sense consciousnesses transform into the all-accomplishing wisdom.
 
</poem>
 
 
{{R}}
 
{{R}}
 
[http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Eight_consciousnesses www.rigpawiki.org]
 
[http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Eight_consciousnesses www.rigpawiki.org]
 
[[Category:Eight Consciousnesses]]
 
[[Category:Eight Consciousnesses]]

Latest revision as of 01:36, 29 February 2016

144gination.jpg

The eight consciousnesses, or more literally, eight collections of consciousness (Skt. aṣṭavijñānakāya; Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་ཚོགས་བརྒྱད, Wyl. rnam shes tshogs brgyad) are mentioned in the writings of the Mind Only school.

The six consciousnesses

  1. Visual (or eye) consciousness (Skt. cakṣur-vijñana; Tib. མིག་གི་རྣམ་ཤེས, mig gi rnam shes)
  2. Auditory (or ear) consciousness (Skt. śrotra-vijñana; Tib. རྣ་བའི་རྣམ་ཤེས, rna ba'i rnam shes)
  3. Olfactory (or nose) consciousness (Skt. ghrāṇa-vijñana; Tib. སྣའི་རྣམ་ཤེས, sna'i rnam shes)
  4. Gustatory (or tongue) consciousness (Skt. jihva-vijñana; Tib. ལྕེའི་རྣམ་ཤེས, lce'i rnam shes)
  5. Tactile (or body) consciousness (Skt. kāya-vijñana; Tib. ལུས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཤེས, lus kyi rnam shes)
  6. Mental (or mind) consciousness (Skt. mano-vijñana; Tib. ཡིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཤེས, yid kyi rnam shes)
204 crop380w.jpg

The seventh and eighth consciousness

To the six consciousnesses mentioned in the Abhidharma texts of the basic vehicle are added:

7. Defiled mental consciousness or emotional consciousness (Skt. kliṣṭamanas; Tib. ཉོན་ཡིད, Wyl. nyon yid) and
8. All-ground consciousness (Skt. ālaya vijñāna; Tib. ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་ཤེས, kunshyi namshé; Wyl. kun gzhi rnam shes).

Transformation into Five Wisdoms

According to Mipham Rinpoche, the eight consciousnesses transform into the five wisdoms in the following way:

  1. Alaya transforms into the wisdom of dharmadhatu.
  2. Alaya consciousness transforms into mirror-like wisdom.
  3. Emotional consciousness transforms into wisdom of equality.
  4. Mental consciousness transforms into the wisdom of discernment.
  5. Five sense consciousnesses transform into the all-accomplishing wisdom.


Source

www.rigpawiki.org