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Tables of Contents for The Buddhist Unconscious
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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