The ālaya-vijñāna is the eighth consciousness in Yogācāra, a continuous stream beneath the six sense consciousnesses and the defiled mind. It holds the seeds left by actions, which ripen as experience and as the appearance of a world. Liberation transforms it into the mirror-like wisdom of a buddha.
Ālaya-vijñāna
Storehouse consciousness: in Yogācāra, the deep consciousness in which the seeds of all experience are stored.
Also: Alaya-vijnana, storehouse consciousness