  In the Compendium of the Great Vehicule  (Mahāyānasaṃgraha; hereafter MSG), Asanga  defines the receptacle consciousness  (ālaya-vijñāna) as the basis or support of  that which is cognizable (jñeyāśraya) and  explains the term ‘receptacle’ (ālaya) as  suggestive of a double function: (1) that of acting as a repository  for the afflictive tendencies, and (2) that of providing the causal  potentiality of the dharmas themselves (MSG I, 1–5).  Furthermore, the receptacle consciousness is described as having the  uncommon characteristic of being the seed for the sense spheres (MSG  I, 59): the obvious implication here is that our experience of the  world is as perception reveals it. And since the sense spheres are in effect seeded by this receptacle consciousness, the world we inhabit  is ultimately a minded world.