| Titel: | Philosophy of mind in the Yogacara Buddhist idealistic school |
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| Autor: | Tola, F und Dragonetti, C |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | History of Psychiatry |
| Jahr: | 2005 |
| Band: | 16 |
| Heft: | Pt 4 (no 64) |
| Seiten: | 453-465 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Abstract: | After some general introduction 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 these same vasanas transforming themselves into conscious ideas and representations, which are either of a cognizing ego or of congnized objects and beings and similar to the experiences that gave rise to them. Since a beginningless eternity, vasanas have been produced without anything real corresponding to them, in a fantasmagorical process. |