Editing Eight Consciousnesses (section)

===Yogācāra===
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The texts of the Yogācāra school gives a detailed explanation of the workings of the mind and the way it constructs the reality we experience. It is "meant to be an explanation of experience, rather than a system of ontology".{{sfn|Kochumuttom|1999|p=1}} The theory of the ālāyavijñana and the other consciousnesses developed out of a need to work out various issues in Buddhist [[Abhidharma]] thought. According to [[Lambert Schmithausen]], the first mention of the concept occurs in the [[Yogacarabhumi-sastra|Yogācārabhumiśāstra]], which posits a basal consciousness that contains seeds for future cognitive processes.<ref>Schmithausen, Lambert. Ālayavijñāna: On the Origin and the Early Development of a Central Concept of Yogācāra Philosophy, International Institute for Buddhist Studies (1987), pp 12-14</ref> It is also described in the [[Samdhinirmocana sutra|Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra]] and in the [[Mahāyānasaṃgraha]] of [[Asanga|Asaṅga]].

[[Vasubandhu]] is considered to be the systematizer of Yogācāra thought.{{sfn|Kalupahana|1992|p=126}} Vasubandhu used the concept of the [[Vijñāna#Six vijñānas|six consciousnesses]], on which he elaborated in the ''Triṃśikaikākārikā'' (Treatise in Thirty Stanzas).{{sfn|Kalupahana|1992|p=135-143}}