The Ālayavijñāna in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought: The Yogācāra Conception of an Unconscious

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Pre f ace i L i
*{{i|Preface|iii}}
I n t r o d u c t i o n 1
*{{i|Introduction|1}}<br><br>
CHAPTER ONE: CANONICAL BUDDHIST THOUGHT 26
The Three Marks of E x i s t e n c e 28
The Formula of Dependent C o - o r I g i n a t I o n 32
A S h o r t Commentary on p at i cca- samuppSda 35
Karma 44
R e c l p r o c i t i y of Name-and-Form and C o n s c i o u s n e s s 47
C o n s c i ou s n e s s C o n d i t i o n s Name-and-Form 49
Cr avi ng and t he S u p p o r t of C o n s c i o u s n e s s 50
Name-and-form C o n d i t i o n s C o n s c i ou s n e s s 52
Sankhara 59
VittttSoa 65
ViflfiSoa and P e r c e p t i o n 66
ViTlTISoa and R e b i r t h 68
C i t t a and Mano 75
A Note on Safins 80
SaTlTlS and PapaTica 83
Anusaya 86
The Unconscious in E a r l y Buddhism 99
Ssava 103
AsampajSno mano-sankhSrS 105
Mi n d - r e a d i n g 107
Remarks on t he “Concept of t he U n c o n s c i o u s ' 113
Notes to C h a p t er One 120
CHAPTER TWO: THE ABHIDHARMA CONTEXT 133
Background of t he Abhidharma 135
The Abhidharma System of Mind 142
C i t t a - c a i t t a 152
The c a i t t a s 154
C i t t a - v i p r a y u k t 5 - s a g s k 5 r 5 157
The Six h e t u s , Five p h a l a s , and Four p r a t y a y a s 161
Karma and KleSa in t he Ko&a 172
The P r o b l e m a t i c s of Abhidharma A n a l y s i s 183


The S a r v S s t l v S d l n Conce pts 189
*{{i|CHAPTER ONE: CANONICAL BUDDHIST THOUGHT|26}}
The k l e£a/ anu£ay a C o n t r o v e r y 196
**{{i|The Three Marks of Existence|28}}
The S a u t r S n t i k a Concept of Seeds ( M j a ) 204
**{{i|The Formula of Dependent Co-origination|32}}
The P r o b l e m a t i c s G e n e r a t e d by t he Concept
**{{i|A Short Commentary on ''paṭicca-samuppāda''|35}}
of Seeds 210
**{{i|''Karma''|44}}
Notes t o C h a p t e r Two 229
**{{i|Reciprocity of Name-and-Form and Consciousness|47}}
CHAPTER THREEi THE ALAYAVIJfiANA IN THE YOGACARA 248
**{{i|Consciousness Conditions Name-and-Form|49}}
I n t r o d u c t i o n t o t he Yog3c5ra C h a p t er 249
**{{i|Craving and the Support of Consciousness|50}}
The YogScSra c o n c e p t i o n o f t h e S l a y a v i j ^S n a
**{{i|Name-and-form Conditions Consciousness|52}}
- Review of C h a p t e r s 1 and 2 253
**{{i|''Sankhārā''|59}}
The Saodhinirnocana SUt ra, t he YogScSrabhUml
**{{i|''Viññāṇa''|65}}
and the O r i g i n s of t he SlayaviJflSna 268
**{{i|''Viññāṇa'' and Perception|66}}
The Sagidh in irmocana S U t r a ' s New Model
**{{i|''Viññāṇa'' and Rebirth|68}}
of t he Mind 273
**{{i|''Citta'' and ''Mano''|75}}
The Sl aya T r e a t i s e of t he YogScSrabhUnt I 281
**{{i|A Note on ''Saññā''|80}}
The P r o o f P o r t i o n of t he Sl aya T r e a t i s e 281
**{{i|''Saññā'' and ''Papañca''|83}}
The I n t r o d u c t i o n of the A f f l i c t e d Mind
**{{i|''Anusaya''|86}}
( k l i s ta- manas) 291
**{{i|The Unconscious in Early Buddhism|99}}
The S l ay a v i JflSna In t he P r a v r t t i / N i v r t t i
**{{i|''āsava''|103}}
P o r t i o n s 297
**{{i|''Asampajāno mano-sankhārā''|105}}
The P r a v r t t i P o r t i o n 300
**{{i|Mind-reading|107}}
The N i v r t t i P o r t i o n 307
**{{i|Remarks on the "Concept of the Unconscious"|113}}
The S l a y a v i JflSna in t h e ManSySna-saograha 312
**{{i|Notes to Chapter One|120}}<br><br>
I d e a l i s m and YogScSra 312
The MahsySna-sajpgraha 319
The Synonyms of t he S l a y a v i JflSna in t he
MahSySna-sagtgraha 319
The A f f l i c t e d Mind in t he MahSySna-sa&graha 324
The C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t he S l a y a v J JflSna
in t he HahSySna-sawgraha 332
I n f u s i n g and Seedi ng t he S l a y a v I JftSna 335
The D e m o n s t r a t i o n of t he S l a y a v I JflSna
in t he MabSySna-saograha 342
L o g i c a l Arguments f o r t he S l a y a v i jfiSna 343
Ca n o n i c a l I n t e r l u d e s 348
R e b i r t h and t he S l a y a v i JflSna in Yog5c5ra 354
Supramundane P u r i f i c a t i o n 358
The S l a y a v i JflSna, Language and S o c i e t y 368
Notes t o C h a p t e r Three 377


CHAPTER FOUk: a CuMpAkISON OF THE ALAYAVIJNANA WITH
*{{i|CHAPTER TWO: THE ABHIDHARMA CONTEXT|133}}
FREUD'S AND JUNG'S THEORIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 400
**{{i|Background of the Abhidharma|135}}
Common P r o b l m a t i c s Between t he S l a y a v i jTiSna
**{{i|The Abhidharma System of Mind|142}}
and t he Unconsci ous 404
**{{i|''Citta-caitta''|152}}
Common C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s 408
**{{i|The ''caittas''|154}}
La t e nc y 408
**{{i|''Citta-viprayuktā-saṃskārā''|157}}
L a t e n t Causal E f f i c a c y 415
**{{i|The Six ''hetus'', Five ''phalas'', and Four ''pratyayas''|161}}
S i m u l t a n e i t y and R e c i p r o c a l C o n d i t i o n a l i t y 420
**{{i|''Karma'' and ''Kleśa'' in the ''Kośa''|172}}
C o g n i t i v e P r o c e s s e s 427
**{{i|The Problematics of Abhidharma Analysis|183}}
Ma t r i x of All Cons ci ous Acts 430
**{{i|The Sarvāstivādin Concepts|189}}
Co n c l u s i o n to Common C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s 433
**{{i|The ''kleśa''/''anuśaya'' Controversy|196}}
Di v e r g e n c e s 437
**{{i|The Sautrāntika Concept of Seeds (''bīja'' )|204}}
R e b i r t h 438
**{{i|The Problematics Generated by the Concept of Seeds|210}}
R e p r e s s i o n 439
**{{i|Notes to Chapter Two|229}}<br><br>
E n e r g e t i c s and Her meneut i cs 444
 
I n s t i n c u a l D r i v e s 459
*{{i|CHAPTER THREE: THE ''ĀLAYAVIJÑĀNA'' IN THE YOGĀCĀRA|248}}
C o n c l u s i o n 463
**{{i|Introduction to the Yogācāra Chapter|249}}
The C o l l e c t i v e Uncons ci ous and t he S l a y a v i jflSna 468
**{{i|The Yogācāra conception of the ''ālayavijñāna''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- Review of Chapters 1 and 2|253}}
Did a Common P r o b l e m a t i c Lead to the
**{{i|The ''Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra'', the ''Yogācārabhūmi'' and the Origins of the<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;''ālayavijñāna''|268}}
S l ay a v i jflSna and t he Unconscious ? 474
**{{i|The ''Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra'''s New Model of the Mind|273}}
Notes t o C h a p t er Four 482
**{{i|The ''ālaya'' Treatise of the ''Yogācārabhūmi''|281}}
CONCLUSION 495
**{{i|The Proof Portion of the ''ālaya'' Treatise|281}}
APPENDIX 503
**{{i|The Introduction of the Afflicted Mind (''kliṣṭa-manas'')|291}}
T r a n s l a t i o n of t he Saipdh in irmocana SUtra
**{{i|The ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Pravṛtti''/''Nivṛtti'' Portions|297}}
Ch a p t er V and V I 1 1 . 37 504
**{{i|The ''Pravṛtti'' Portion|300}}
Notes 516
**{{i|The ''Nivṛtti'' Portion|307}}
T i b e t a n Text 520
**{{i|The ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|312}}
T r a n s l a t i o n of t he Pr oof P o r t i o n of t he
**{{i|Idealism and Yogācāra|312}}
YogScSrabhUmi -Vin i Scaya-saqigrahaoT 526
**{{i|The ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|319}}
Notes 537
**{{i|The Synonyms of the ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|319}}
T r a n s l a t i o n of t he P r a v r t t i / N i v r t t i P o r t i o n s
**{{i|The Afflicted Mind in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|324}}
of t he YogScSrabhUmi-Vin iicaya-sajpgrahanT 539
**{{i|The Characteristics of the ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|332}}
Notes 563
**{{i|Infusing and Seeding the ''ālayavijñāna''|335}}
T i b e t a n Text 571
**{{i|The Demonstration of the ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|342}}
T r a n s l a t i o n of Ch. l of the MahSySna-samgraha 583
**{{i|Logical Arguments for the ''ālayavijñāna''|343}}
Notes 635
**{{i|Canonical Interludes|348}}
O u t l i n e of t he Te x t s 716
**{{i|Rebirth and the ''ālayavijñāna'' in Yogācāra|354}}
BIBLIOGRAPHY 721
**{{i|Supramundane Purification|358}}
**{{i|The ''ālayavijñāna'', Language and Society|368}}
**{{i|Notes to Chapter Three|377}}<br><br>
 
*{{i|CHAPTER FOUR: A COMPARISON OF THE ''ĀLAYAVIJÑĀNA'' WITH<br>FREUD'S AND JUNG'S THEORIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS|400}}
**{{i|Common Problematics Between the ''ālayavijñāna'' and the Unconscious|404}}
**{{i|Common Characteristics|408}}
**{{i|Latency|408}}
**{{i|Latent Causal Efficacy|415}}
**{{i|Simultaneity and Reciprocal Conditionality|420}}
**{{i|Cognitive Processes|427}}
**{{i|Matrix of All Conscious Acts|430}}
**{{i|Conclusion to Common Characteristics|433}}
**{{i|Divergences|437}}
**{{i|Rebirth|438}}
**{{i|Repression|439}}
**{{i|Energetics and Hermeneutics|444}}
**{{i|Instinctual Drives|459}}
**{{i|Conclusion|463}}
**{{i|The Collective Unconscious and the ''ālayavijñāna''|468}}
**{{i|Did a Common Problematic Lead to the ''ālayavijñāna'' and the<br>Unconscious?|474}}
**{{i|Notes to Chapter Four|482}}<br><br>
*{{i|CONCLUSION|495}}
*{{i|APPENDIX|503}}
**{{i|Translation of the ''Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra''<br>Chapter V and VIII.37|504}}
***{{i|Notes|516}}
***{{i|Tibetan Text|520}}
**{{i|Translation of the Proof Portion of the ''Yogācārabhūmi-Viniścaya-<br>saṃgrahaṇī''|526}}
***{{i|Notes|537}}
**{{i|Translation of the ''Pravṛtti''/''Nivṛtti'' Portions of the ''Yogācārabhūmi-Viniścaya-saṃgrahaṇī''|539}}
***{{i|Notes|563}}
***{{i|Tibetan Text|571}}
**{{i|Translation of Ch. 1 of the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|583}}
***{{i|Notes|635}}
**{{i|Outline of the Texts|716}}
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The Ālayavijñāna in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought: The Yogācāra Conception of an Unconscious
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Abstract

The thesis focuses on the relations between mind and karma and the continuity of life in saṃsāra based upon a concept of mind, the ālayavijñāna, as presented in the texts of Asaṅga and Vasubandhu of the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism, A.D. 4-5th centuries. It has been the topic of many sectarian disputes as well as the springboard for several far-reaching doctrinal developments, so it is desirable to examine it within its early Indian Buddhist context.
      The first section presents the multivalent viññāṇa of the Pali Canon and related concepts. It demonstrates that the major characteristics later predicated of the ālayavijñāna were present in an unsystematized but implicit form in the viññāṇa of the early discourses.
      The next section describes the systematic psychological analysis developed by the Abhidharma and its consequent problematics. It argues that the incongruity of Abhidharmic analysis with the older unsystematized doctrines led to major theoretical problems concerning the key concepts of kleśa and karma, to which the Sautrāntika school offered the concept of seeds (bija).
      The third section, based primarily upon the texts translated herein, depicts the origination and gradual development of the ālayavijñāna within the Yogācāra school from a somatic "life principle", to an explicitly unconscious mind, to its final bifurcation into an unconscious afflicted mind (kliṣṭa-manas) and a passive respository of karmic seeds, the latent loci of kleśa and karma, respectively.
      The last section compares the ālayavijñāna systematically with Freud's and Jung's concepts of the unconscious, concluding that their respective philosophical milieus led both traditions to conceptions of unconscious mental processes as necessary compensations for strictly intentional epistemological models.
      In the appendix the major texts presenting the ālayavijñāna, Chaps. V and VIII.37 of the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, part of the Viniścaya-saṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi, and Ch. 1 of the Mahāyāna-saṃgraha, are translated and extensively annotated in order to contextualize the minutiae of this concept of mind with its canonical precursors and its Abhidharmic contemporaries. (Source: ProQuest)

Citation Waldron, William S. "The Ālayavijñāna in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought: The Yogācāra Conception of an Unconscious." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990.


  • Acknowledgementsii
  • Prefaceiii
  • Introduction1

  • CHAPTER ONE: CANONICAL BUDDHIST THOUGHT26
    • The Three Marks of Existence28
    • The Formula of Dependent Co-origination32
    • A Short Commentary on paṭicca-samuppāda35
    • Karma44
    • Reciprocity of Name-and-Form and Consciousness47
    • Consciousness Conditions Name-and-Form49
    • Craving and the Support of Consciousness50
    • Name-and-form Conditions Consciousness52
    • Sankhārā59
    • Viññāṇa65
    • Viññāṇa and Perception66
    • Viññāṇa and Rebirth68
    • Citta and Mano75
    • A Note on Saññā80
    • Saññā and Papañca83
    • Anusaya86
    • The Unconscious in Early Buddhism99
    • āsava103
    • Asampajāno mano-sankhārā105
    • Mind-reading107
    • Remarks on the "Concept of the Unconscious"113
    • Notes to Chapter One120

  • CHAPTER TWO: THE ABHIDHARMA CONTEXT133
    • Background of the Abhidharma135
    • The Abhidharma System of Mind142
    • Citta-caitta152
    • The caittas154
    • Citta-viprayuktā-saṃskārā157
    • The Six hetus, Five phalas, and Four pratyayas161
    • Karma and Kleśa in the Kośa172
    • The Problematics of Abhidharma Analysis183
    • The Sarvāstivādin Concepts189
    • The kleśa/anuśaya Controversy196
    • The Sautrāntika Concept of Seeds (bīja )204
    • The Problematics Generated by the Concept of Seeds210
    • Notes to Chapter Two229

  • CHAPTER FOUR: A COMPARISON OF THE ĀLAYAVIJÑĀNA WITH
    FREUD'S AND JUNG'S THEORIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
    400
    • Common Problematics Between the ālayavijñāna and the Unconscious404
    • Common Characteristics408
    • Latency408
    • Latent Causal Efficacy415
    • Simultaneity and Reciprocal Conditionality420
    • Cognitive Processes427
    • Matrix of All Conscious Acts430
    • Conclusion to Common Characteristics433
    • Divergences437
    • Rebirth438
    • Repression439
    • Energetics and Hermeneutics444
    • Instinctual Drives459
    • Conclusion463
    • The Collective Unconscious and the ālayavijñāna468
    • Did a Common Problematic Lead to the ālayavijñāna and the
      Unconscious?
      474
    • Notes to Chapter Four482

  • CONCLUSION495
  • APPENDIX503
    • Translation of the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra
      Chapter V and VIII.37
      504
      • Notes516
      • Tibetan Text520
    • Translation of the Proof Portion of the Yogācārabhūmi-Viniścaya-
      saṃgrahaṇī
      526
      • Notes537
    • Translation of the Pravṛtti/Nivṛtti Portions of the Yogācārabhūmi-Viniścaya-saṃgrahaṇī539
      • Notes563
      • Tibetan Text571
    • Translation of Ch. 1 of the Mahāyāna-saṃgraha583
      • Notes635
    • Outline of the Texts716
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY721