The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vij±ana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought,9780415298094

The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vij±ana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought

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ISBN13: 9780415298094
ISBN10: 0415298091
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-06-06
Publisher(s): RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Thematic introduction: a Buddhist critique of the construction of self and world 1(6)
PART I The background and context of the alaya-vijnana 7(82)
1 The early Buddhist background
9(37)
The three marks of existence
9(2)
The formula of dependent arising
11(8)
Causation and continuity without a self
16(3)
Vinnana in the formula of dependent arising
19(14)
Vinnana as consciousness
21(7)
Vinnana as cognitive awareness
28(5)
The underlying tendencies (anusaya)
33(8)
The underlying tendency "I am" and conceptual proliferation (papanca)
36(3)
The debate over latent versus manifest
39(2)
Reciprocal causality between the two aspects of vinnana
41(5)
2 The Abhidharma context
46(43)
The Abhidharma project and its problematic
46(4)
Background of the Abhidharma
47(3)
The aim and methods of Abhidharma: dharma as irreducible unit of experience
50(5)
The basic problematic: two levels of discourse, two dimensions of mind
55(2)
Analysis of mind and its mental factors
57(5)
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
59(3)
The problematic in its diachronic dimension: immediate succession versus the continuity of karmic potential
62(5)
The persistence of traditional continuities: karma and klesa in the Abhidharma-kosa
67(3)
Abhidharmic responses to the problematic
70(6)
The Sarvastivadin theory of possession (prapti)
72(1)
The Sautrantika theory of seeds (bija) in the mental stream (santana)
73(3)
Questions raised by consciousness, seeds, and the mental stream
76(5)
The Theravadin theory of life-constituent mind (bhavanga-citta)
81(4)
Conclusion
85(4)
PART II The alaya-vijnana in the Yogacara tradition 89(82)
3 The alaya-vijnana in the early tradition
91(37)
The origins of the alaya-vijnana
91(3)
The new model of mind in the Sandhinirmocana Sutra
94(7)
The alaya-vijnana as mental stream
99(2)
The Alaya Treatise of the Yogacarabhumi
101(6)
The Proof Portion
102(5)
The Alaya Treatise, Pravrtti Portion: analyzing the alaya-vijnana in Abhidharmic terms
107(2)
The alaya-vijnana's subliminal objective supports and cognitive processes
109(3)
The alaya-vijnana's mutual and simultaneous relationship with manifest cognitive awareness (pravrtti-vijnana)
112(5)
The alaya-vijnana's simultaneous arising with (afflictive) mentation
117(6)
The Alaya Treatise, Nivrtti Portion: equating the alaya-vijnana with samsaric continuity
123(4)
Conclusion
127(1)
4 The alaya-vijnana in the Mahayana-samgraha
1. bringing it all back home
128(30)
Appropriating the traditional Buddhist framework
129(10)
Synonyms of the alaya-vijnana in the disciple's vehicle
130(1)
The two vijnanas and the two dependent arisings
131(4)
Seeding the alaya-vijnana: the karmic process as simultaneous intrapsychic causality
135(4)
Resolving the Abhidharmic Problematic
139(14)
Karma, rebirth, and the alaya-vijnana
140(2)
The continuity of the afflictions (klesa)
142(8)
The path of purification: mundane and supramundane
150(3)
Beyond Abhidharma: adventitious defilements, pure seeds, and luminous minds
153(5)
5 The alaya-vijnana in the Mahayana-samgraha
2. looking beyond
158(13)
The predispositions of speech, self-view, and the life-constituents
159(1)
Common experience, common embodiment: language, the alaya-vijnana, and "the arising of the world"
160
PART III
Appendices
171(19)
Appendix I The series of dependent arising: affliction, action, and their results
173(2)
Appendix II Index of related controversies
175(3)
Appendix III Translation: the Pravrtti and Nivrtti Portions of the Viniscayasamgrahani of the Yogacarabhumi
178(12)
Notes
190(57)
Bibliography of works cited
247(8)
Index of texts quoted
255(4)
Index
259

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