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Philosophy of mind in the Yogacara Buddhist idealistic school

Fundación Instituto de Estudios Budistas, Buenos Aires

Carmen Dragonetti

National Council of Scientific Research, Argentina; Olazabal 1584 3ro. ‘C’, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina. cldragon{at}mail.retina.ar

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 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.

Key Words: Buddhism • idealism • mind • vasanas • Yogacara

History of Psychiatry, Vol. 16, No. 4, 453-465 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X05059213


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