Editing Eight Consciousnesses (section)

====Sautrāntika and Theravāda theories====
The Sautrāntika school of Buddhism, which relied closely on the sutras, developed a theory of seeds (''bīja'', 種子) in the mindstream (''cittasaṃtāna'', 心相續,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.buddhism-dict.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?q=%E5%BF%83%E7%9B%B8%E7%BA%8C|title=Digital Dictionary of Buddhism - 心相續|last=Charles|first=Muller|date=2004-09-11}}{{Dead link|date=December 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> lit. "mind-character-continuity") to explain how karma and the latent dispositions continued throughout life and rebirth. This theory later developed into the alayavijñana view.<ref>Waldron, William S. The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijñana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought. Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism, 2003, page 72-73.</ref>

The Theravāda theory of the [[Bhavanga|bhavaṅga]] may also be a forerunner of the ālāyavijñana theory. [[Vasubandhu]] cites the bhavaṅgavijñāna of the [[Sinhala Kingdom|Sinhalese]] school (''Tāmraparṇīyanikāya'') as a forerunner of the ālāyavijñāna. The Theravadin theory is also mentioned by Xuánzàng.<ref>L. Schmithausen. Ālayavijñāna: On the Origin and Early Development of a Central Concept of Yogācāra Philosophy, Tokyo, 1987, I, 7–8</ref>