Amalavijñāna

Amalavijñāna , “conscience pure”, indicates, in the teaching of the Bouddhisme of the school Cittamātra, the conscience removed from any impure seed.

Ninth conscience

All the Buddhist schools recognize the existence of six consciences, Vijñāna : five sensory consciences and a “mental conscience”, manovijñāna .
The Cittamātra adds to that two consciences: soiled conscience, and the ālayavijñāna , fundamental conscience, receptacle of the karmic traces .

The Indian Master Paramārtha considers a ninth conscience: amalavijñāna .
The amalavijñāna is conscience of the ainsity, pure, without error. If Cittamātra regards the relation subject-object as imaginary nature, and recognizes usually only dependant nature, will paratantra , the amalavijñāna transcends the latter. The amalavijñāna is nonduelle, it is one, and occurs at the time when cease the ālayavijñāna .

This theory brought the formation of the school Shelunzong (or Shezong).

Part of the ālayavijñāna

According to the school Faxiang, inspired by Xuanzang, there is a amalavijñāna well, but this one is only part of the ālayavijñāna , which occurs when the latter becomes pure. It is thus only the “accomplished” nature of the ālayavijñāna , conscience bases of all.

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