Philosophy of mind in the Yogacara Buddhist idealistic school
History of Psychiatry December 1, 2005 Fernando Tola, Carmen Dragonetti 9 citations
After some general introductory remarks on Indian philosophy, this essay deals with the structure of mind in the Yogacara Buddhist idealist school. Mind can be conceived as having two ‘parts’: the receptacle consciousness, constituted by the vasanas, or ‘marks’ left by any individual experience, which ‘remains’ in the mind in an unconscious state; and the function consciousness, constituted by...