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Buddhist Unconscious The Alaya-Vij�ana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought

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ISBN-10: 0415298091

ISBN-13: 9780415298094

Edition: 2003

Authors: William S. Waldron

List price: $215.00
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This is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to an extraordinary degree. This important study reveals how the Buddhist unconscious illuminates and draws out aspects of current western thinking on the unconscious mind. One of the most intriguing connections is the idea that there is in fact no substantial 'self' underlying all mental activity; 'the thoughts themselves are the thinker'. William S. Waldron considers the implications of this radical notion, which, despite only recently gaining plausibility, was in fact first posited 2,500 years ago.
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Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/6/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

The Background and Context of the laya-vijnana
The Early Buddhist Background
The Three Marks of Existence
The Formula of Dependent Arising
Causation and continuity without a self
Vinnana in the Formula of Dependent Arising
Vinnana as Consciousness
Karmic Formations and Craving increase Vinnana and Perpetuate Samsara
Consciousness and the Potential for Karmic Fruition
Vinnana as Cognitive Awareness
Cognitive Processes and the Production of Karma
The Underlying Tendencies (anusaya)
The Underlying Tendency "I am" and Conceptual Proliferation
The Debate over Latent and Manifest
Reciprocal Causality Between the Two Aspects of Vinnana
The Abhidharma Context
The Abhidharma Project and its Problematic
Background of the Abhidharma
The Aim and Methods of Abhidharma: Dharma as Irreducible Unit of Experience 18. The Basic Problematic: Two Levels of Discourse Two Dimensions of Mind
Analysis of Mind and its Mental Factors
The Initial Formulation of the Problematic in its Synchronic Dimension: The Accumulation of Karmic Potential, the Presence of the Underlying Tendencies and their Gradual Purification in the Kathavatthu
The Problematic in its Diachronic Dimension: Immediate Succession vs the Continuity of Karmic Potential
The Persistence of Traditonal Continuities: Karma and Klesa in the AbhiDharma-Kosa
AbhiDharmic Responses to the Problematic
The Sarvastivadin Theory of Possession
The Sautrantika Theory of Seeds in the Mental Stream
Questions Raised by Consciousness, Seeds and the Mental Stream
The Theravadin Theory of Life Constituent Mind
Conclusion
The Alaya-vijnana in the Yogacara Tradition, The Alaya-vijnana in the Early Tradition
The Origins of the Alaya-vijnana
The New Model of Mind in the Samdhinirmocana Sutra
The Alaya-Vijnana as Mental Stream
The Alaya Treatise of the Yogacarabhumi
The Proof Portion
The Alaya Treatise, Pravrtti Portion: Analysing the Alaya-Vijnana in Avhidharmic Terms
Its subliminal objective supports and cognitive processes
Its mutual and simulataneous relationship with manifest cognitive awareness 37. Manifest Cognitive Processes Produce Karma and Increase the Alaya-vijnana
Its Simultaneous Arising with Afflictive Mentation
The Alaya treatise, Nivrtti Portion: Equating the Alaya-Vijnana with Samsaric Continuity
Conclusion
The Alaya-Vijnana in the Mahayana-samgraha I : Bringing It All Back Home
Appropriating the Traditional Buddhist Framework
Synonyms of the Alaya-vijnana in the Disciple's Vehicle
The Two Vijnanas and the Two Dependent Arisings
Seeding the Alaya-vijnana: The Karmic Process as Simultaneous Intrapsychic Causality
Resolving the Abhidharmic problematic
Karma, Rebirth and the Alaya-vijnana
The continuity of the Afflictions
Afflicitve Mentation in the Mahayana-samgraha
The Path of Purification:Mundane and SupraMundane
Beyond Abhidharma: Adventitious Defilements, Pure Seeds and Luminous Minds
The Alaya-vijnana in the Mahayana-samgraha II: Looking Beyond
The Predispositions of Speech, Self View and the Life Constituents
Common Experience, Common Embodiment: Language, the Alaya-vijnana and the Arising of the World