Philosophy of mind in the Yogacara Buddhist idealistic school
History of Psychiatry December 1, 2005 Fernando Tola, Carmen Dragonetti 9 citations
In Yogacara Buddhist idealism, the mind has two parts: receptacle consciousness, which holds unconscious traces (vasanas) from past experiences, and function consciousness, where those traces become conscious ideas of a self and objects. These vasanas have been produced since beginningless time without any real basis, in a fantasmagorical process.