Can the Seventh Consciousness Give Rise to Other Dharmas?

The seven consciousnesses are generated from the seeds of consciousness within the tathāgatagarbha; they are dharmas that are produced, and therefore they lack the nature of self-existence and self-mastery, so they cannot in turn give birth to other dharmas, because they themselves do not possess the seeds capable of generating other dharmas, nor can they store seeds. Only the tathāgatagarbha possesses seeds and can use seeds to generate the five aggregates (pañca-skandha), the eighteen realms, and all myriad dharmas; the five aggregates, the eighteen realms, and all myriad dharmas cannot in turn generate other dharmas, because they are subject to arising and ceasing, because they lack self-mastery, and because they do not contain and store seeds. The seven consciousnesses serve as contributing conditions for the tathāgatagarbha to give birth to the six sense-object dharmas, and together with the tathāgatagarbha they combine to form the three consciousnesses of transformative agency (parināma), thereby being able to transform and fabricate all dharmas.