Vasubandhu · Theology

The Storehouse and the Three Natures

Vasubandhu's <em>Thirty Verses</em> complete mind-only: a subliminal &lsquo;storehouse consciousness&rsquo; carries the seeds of all experience, and the three natures explain how the same world can be at once deluding, dependent, and - when the mind turns - perfected.

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You learned that Vasubandhu's Thirty Verses posit a subliminal storehouse consciousness ( alaya-vijnana ) holding the seeds of all experience and ripening them, that the felt &lsquo;I&rsquo; is a mistaken clinging to this stream, and that the three natures - the imagined ( parikalpita ), the dependent ( paratantra ),…

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