ABSTRACT
Memory was approached and treated in Indian and Chinese Buddhist traditions in different ways than in the West, and they break new grounds for cognitive research in memory in modern days. For Buddhism, one must be awakened to the fact that things have no essence and the world is in flux (samsara) without permanence. Karma here means results from one's actions in life and it always involves doing the wrong thing or the right thing. According to Asanga and Vasuhandhu, one forms one's self by projection of one's consciousness, which is given in the formation of one's mind. Unlike Descartes, the alaya consciousness is conceived to support all individual minds and the consequent selfhood of human persons. It is important to observe that the storehouse consciousness is conceived as part of the true nature of a person which in itself is empty.
