The Buddhist Unconscious - The Alaya-vijnana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought (Hardcover, New)

Contents:
Part I - The Background and Context of the Ãlaya-vijñana
1. The Early Buddhist Background
2. The Three Marks of Existence
3. The Formula of Dependent Arising
4. Causation and continuity without a self
5. Viññana in the Formula of Dependent Arising
6. Viññana as Consciousness
7. Karmic Formations and Craving increase Viññana and Perpetuate Samsara
8. Consciousness and the Potential for Karmic Fruition
9. Viññana as Cognitive Awareness
10. Cognitive Processes and the Production of Karma
11. The Underlying Tendencies (anusaya)
12. The Underlying Tendency "I am" and Conceptual Proliferation
13. The Debate over Latent and Manifest
14. Reciprocal Causality Between the Two Aspects of Viññana
Part II - The Abhidharma Context
15. The Abhidharma Project and its Problematic
16. Background of the Abhidharma
17. The Aim and Methods of Abhidharma: Dharma as Irreducible Unit of Experience
18. The Basic Problematic: Two Levels of Discourse Two Dimensions of Mind
19. Analysis of Mind and its Mental Factors
20. 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
21. The Problematic in its Diachronic Dimension: Immediate Succession vs the Continuity of Karmic Potential
22. The Persistence of Traditonal Continuities: Karma and Klesa in the AbhiDharma-Kosa
23. AbhiDharmic Responses to the Problematic
24. The Sarvastivadin Theory of Possession
25. The Sautrantika Theory of Seeds in the Mental Stream
26. Questions Raised by Consciousness, Seeds and the Mental Stream
27. The Theravadin Theory of Life Constituent Mind
28. Conclusion
Part III - The Alaya-vijñana in the Yogacara Tradition, The Alaya-vijñana in the Early Tradition
29. The Origins of the Alaya-vijñana
30. The New Model of Mind in the Samdhinirmocana Sutra
31. The Alaya-Vijñana as Mental Stream
32. The Alaya Treatise of the Yogacarabhumi
33. The Proof Portion
34. The Alaya Treatise, Pravrtti Portion: Analysing the Alaya-Vijñana in Avhidharmic Terms
35. Its subliminal objective supports and cognitive processes
36. Its mutual and simulataneous relationship with manifest cognitive awareness
37. Manifest Cognitive Processes Produce Karma and Increase the Alaya-vijñana
38. Its Simultaneous Arising with Afflictive Mentation
39. The Alaya treatise, Nivrtti Portion: Equating the Alaya-Vijñana with Samsaric Continuity
40. Conclusion
Part IV - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha I : Bringing It All Back Home
41. Appropriating the Traditional Buddhist Framework
42. Synonyms of the Alaya-vijñana in the Disciple's Vehicle
43. The Two Vijnanas and the Two Dependent Arisings
44. Seeding the Alaya-vijñana: The Karmic Process as Simultaneous Intrapsychic Causality
45. Resolving the Abhidharmic problematic
46. Karma, Rebirth and the Alaya-vijñana
47. The continuity of the Afflictions
48. Afflicitve Mentation in the Mahayana-samgraha
49. The Path of Purification:Mundane and SupraMundane
50. Beyond Abhidharma: Adventitious Defilements, Pure Seeds and Luminous Minds
Part V - The Alaya-vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha II: Looking Beyond
51. The Predispositions of Speech, Self View and the Life Constituents
52. Common Experience, Common Embodiment: Language, the Alaya-vijñana and the Arising of the World

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Release date:	March 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	William S. Waldron
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-29809-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Oriental & Indian philosophy Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > General Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Oriental & Indian philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > General
LSN:	0-415-29809-1
Barcode:	9780415298094

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