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| − | + | 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. | ||
| − | + | The [[six consciousnesses]] | |
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| + | # [[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]]) | ||
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| − | To the six consciousnesses mentioned in the Abhidharma texts of the basic vehicle are added: | + | The seventh and [[eighth consciousness]] |
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| + | To the [[six consciousnesses]] mentioned in the [[Abhidharma]] texts of the [[basic vehicle]] are added: | ||
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| + | : 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]]). | ||
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| + | [[Transformation]] into [[Five Wisdoms]] | ||
| − | + | According to [[Mipham Rinpoche]], the [[eight consciousnesses]] [[transform]] into the [[five wisdoms]] in the following way: | |
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| − | + | # [[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]]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:36, 29 February 2016
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.
- 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)
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:
- 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.
