Ālayavijñāna: On the Origin and the Early Development of a Central Concept of Yogācāra Philosophy. Part 1: Text

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Contents of Vol. I

• PrefaceVII
  • 1. Introductory, programmatic and methodological remarks1
  • 2. First introduction and original meaning of ālayavijñāna15
  • 3. Development of ālayavijñāna to the basic constituent of a living being34
  • 4. Development of the negative aspects of ālayavijñāna66
  • 5. Ālayavijñāna as a veritable vijñāna85
  • 6. Evaluation of the other occurrences of ālayavijñāna in the Basic Section
        of the Yogācārabhūmi109
  • 7. Discussion of some divergent theories on the origin of ālayavijñāna144
  • 8. Supplement I: Reconsideration of some aspects of the methodology of
        exploring the history of early Yogācāra literature183
  • 9. Supplement II: Preliminary analysis of the Proof Portion194
  • 10. Supplement III: Mystical experience, elimination of ālayavijñāna and
         the question of vijñaptimātratā in the ālayavijñāna Treatise in the
         beginning of the Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī197
  • 11. Supplement IV: Two remarks on the structure of the Nivṛtti Portion208
  • 12. Supplement V: Remark on two quotations from the Nagarasūtra214
  • Appendix I: The Sacittikā and Acittikā Bhūmiḥ of the Yogācārabhūmi220
  • Appendix II: Paramārthagāthās 28–41 and their Commentary223

ālayavijñāna - A neutral base consciousness that is posited as the storehouse for the seeds of past karmic actions in which they remain in a latent state until the circumstances arise for them to ripen as karmic consequences. Skt. आलयविज्ञान Tib. ཀུན་གཞིའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་ Ch. 阿賴耶識,藏識

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ālayavijñāna - A neutral base consciousness that is posited as the storehouse for the seeds of past karmic actions in which they remain in a latent state until the circumstances arise for them to ripen as karmic consequences. Skt. आलयविज्ञान Tib. ཀུན་གཞིའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་ Ch. 阿賴耶識,藏識

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ālayavijñāna - A neutral base consciousness that is posited as the storehouse for the seeds of past karmic actions in which they remain in a latent state until the circumstances arise for them to ripen as karmic consequences. Skt. आलयविज्ञान Tib. ཀུན་གཞིའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་ Ch. 阿賴耶識,藏識

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ālayavijñāna - A neutral base consciousness that is posited as the storehouse for the seeds of past karmic actions in which they remain in a latent state until the circumstances arise for them to ripen as karmic consequences. Skt. आलयविज्ञान Tib. ཀུན་གཞིའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་ Ch. 阿賴耶識,藏識

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派

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