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Category：Doctrines of the Consciousness-Only School Reads：
How does the five-aggregate body of sentient beings exist? How does the five-aggregate body of sentient beings proceed to future lives? How does the five-aggregate body of sentient beings transfer karma to the next life? How does the five-aggregate body of sentient beings disappear and cease? To know all the secrets of the five-aggregate body, one must study this Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Manifestation of Consciousness. The entire book explains how the Ālayavijñāna sustains the body, how it departs from the body, how it takes rebirth elsewhere carrying feelings and perceptions, how it migrates to another material body, how it receives the material body of the next life, how it operates in accordance with the body, the state of leaving the present material body and receiving the karmic retribution of a future body, how it enters the womb, how it sustains karma, and so forth, thereby fully revealing the functions and roles of the Ālayavijñāna within the five-aggregate body, and telling sentient beings how vital the Ālayavijñāna is to the transmigration and operation of life—without the Ālayavijñāna there would be no five-aggregate bodies of the three times, nor the material universe (the inanimate world); the Ālayavijñāna is the sovereign of the five-aggregate world and the principal consciousness of sentient beings' lives. Therefore, understanding the Ālayavijñāna is extremely important, and realizing the Ālayavijñāna is even more important.
