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

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**{{i|The Problematics Generated by the Concept of Seeds|210}}
 
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CHAPTER THREEi THE ALAYAVIJfiANA IN THE YOGACARA 248
 
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I n t r o d u c t i o n t o t he Yog3c5ra C h a p t er 249
 
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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
 
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- Review of C h a p t e r s 1 and 2 253
 
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The Saodhinirnocana SUt ra, t he YogScSrabhUml
 
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and the O r i g i n s of t he SlayaviJflSna 268
 
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The Sagidh in irmocana S U t r a ' s New Model
 
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of t he Mind 273
 
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The Sl aya T r e a t i s e of t he YogScSrabhUnt I 281
 
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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
 
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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
 
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( k l i s ta- manas) 291
 
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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
 
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P o r t i o n s 297
 
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The P r a v r t t i P o r t i o n 300
 
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The N i v r t t i P o r t i o n 307
 
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The S l a y a v i JflSna in t h e ManSySna-saograha 312
 
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I d e a l i s m and YogScSra 312
 
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The MahsySna-sajpgraha 319
 
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The Synonyms of t he S l a y a v i JflSna in t he
 
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MahSySna-sagtgraha 319
 
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The A f f l i c t e d Mind in t he MahSySna-sa&graha 324
 
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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
 
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in t he HahSySna-sawgraha 332
 
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I n f u s i n g and Seedi ng t he S l a y a v I JftSna 335
 
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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
 
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in t he MabSySna-saograha 342
 
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L o g i c a l Arguments f o r t he S l a y a v i jfiSna 343
 
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Ca n o n i c a l I n t e r l u d e s 348
 
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R e b i r t h and t he S l a y a v i JflSna in Yog5c5ra 354
 
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Supramundane P u r i f i c a t i o n 358
 
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The S l a y a v i JflSna, Language and S o c i e t y 368
 
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Notes t o C h a p t e r Three 377
 
  
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CHAPTER FOUk: a CuMpAkISON OF THE ALAYAVIJNANA WITH
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*{{i|CHAPTER THREE: THE ''ĀLAYAVIJÑĀNA'' IN THE YOGĀCĀRA|248}}
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FREUD'S AND JUNG'S THEORIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 400
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**{{i|Introduction to the Yogācāra Chapter|249}}
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Common P r o b l m a t i c s Between t he S l a y a v i jTiSna
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**{{i|The Yogācāra conception of the ''ālayavijñāna''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- Review of Chapters 1 and 2|253}}
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and t he Unconsci ous 404
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**{{i|The ''Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra'', the ''Yogācārabhūmi'' and the Origins of the<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;''ālayavijñāna''|268}}
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Common C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s 408
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**{{i|The ''Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra'''s New Model of the Mind|273}}
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La t e nc y 408
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**{{i|The ''ālaya'' Treatise of the ''Yogācārabhūmi''|281}}
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L a t e n t Causal E f f i c a c y 415
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**{{i|The Proof Portion of the ''ālaya'' Treatise|281}}
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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
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**{{i|The Introduction of the Afflicted Mind (''kliṣṭa-manas'')|291}}
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C o g n i t i v e P r o c e s s e s 427
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**{{i|The ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Pravṛtti''/''Nivṛtti'' Portions|297}}
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Ma t r i x of All Cons ci ous Acts 430
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**{{i|The ''Pravṛtti'' Portion|300}}
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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
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**{{i|The ''Nivṛtti'' Portion|307}}
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Di v e r g e n c e s 437
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**{{i|The ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|312}}
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R e b i r t h 438
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**{{i|Idealism and Yogācāra|312}}
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R e p r e s s i o n 439
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**{{i|The ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|319}}
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E n e r g e t i c s and Her meneut i cs 444
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**{{i|The Synonyms of the ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|319}}
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I n s t i n c u a l D r i v e s 459
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**{{i|The Afflicted Mind in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|324}}
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C o n c l u s i o n 463
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**{{i|The Characteristics of the ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|332}}
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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
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**{{i|Infusing and Seeding the ''ālayavijñāna''|335}}
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**{{i|The Demonstration of the ''ālayavijñāna'' in the ''Mahāyāna-saṃgraha''|342}}
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S l ay a v i jflSna and t he Unconscious ? 474
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**{{i|Logical Arguments for the ''ālayavijñāna''|343}}
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Notes t o C h a p t er Four 482
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**{{i|Canonical Interludes|348}}
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CONCLUSION 495
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**{{i|Rebirth and the ''ālayavijñāna'' in Yogācāra|354}}
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APPENDIX 503
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**{{i|Supramundane Purification|358}}
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T r a n s l a t i o n of t he Saipdh in irmocana SUtra
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**{{i|The ''ālayavijñāna'', Language and Society|368}}
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Ch a p t er V and V I 1 1 . 37 504
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Notes 516
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**{{i|Common Problematics Between the ''ālayavijñāna'' and the Unconscious|404}}
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YogScSrabhUmi -Vin i Scaya-saqigrahaoT 526
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**{{i|Common Characteristics|408}}
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Notes 537
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**{{i|Latency|408}}
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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
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**{{i|Latent Causal Efficacy|415}}
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of t he YogScSrabhUmi-Vin iicaya-sajpgrahanT 539
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**{{i|Simultaneity and Reciprocal Conditionality|420}}
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Notes 563
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**{{i|Cognitive Processes|427}}
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T i b e t a n Text 571
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**{{i|Matrix of All Conscious Acts|430}}
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T r a n s l a t i o n of Ch. l of the MahSySna-samgraha 583
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Notes 635
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O u t l i n e of t he Te x t s 716
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**{{i|Energetics and Hermeneutics|444}}
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**{{i|Instinctual Drives|459}}
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**{{i|The Collective Unconscious and the ''ālayavijñāna''|468}}
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**{{i|Did a Common Problematic Lead to the ''ālayavijñāna'' and the<br>Unconscious?|474}}
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**{{i|Translation of the ''Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra''<br>Chapter V and VIII.37|504}}
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**{{i|Translation of the Proof Portion of the ''Yogācārabhūmi-Viniścaya-<br>saṃgrahaṇī''|526}}
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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.

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