Manas-vijnana
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Manas-vijnana (Skt. manas-vijñāna; "mind-knowledge", compare man-tra, jñāna) is the seventh of the eight consciousnesses taught in Yogacara Buddhism. The higher consciousness that localizes experience through thinking. One of its primary functions is to perceive the subjective position of the store consciousness and erroneously regard it as one's own ego, thereby creating ego attachment. Its basic nature is that of thought, but there is a difference between it and the sixth consciousness. Not consciously controllable, it is said to be a mind of a realm that gives rise to contradiction of conscious decisions, and to incessant self-love. Since it can also be called the movement of the human mind which sees the limits of human variation from within, it is necessary that for their basis of existence, humans have some fundamental thing that unceasingly continues and changes, serving as the ground for the sixth consciousness. This consciousness is also called the place where good and evil are eternally accumulated, and is theorized as the connecting realm between the mano-consciousness and the ālayavijñāna.
