The Buddhist Unconscious: The alaya-vijnana in the context of Indian Buddhist thought
Waldron, William S.
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Book ID : 42627
ISBN-10 : 0-415-40607-2 / 0415406072
ISBN-13 : 978-0-415-40607-9 / 9780415406079
Place
of Publication :
UK
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
xvi, 269p., App., Bib., Index, 23 cm. (RoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism)
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This is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to an extraordinary degree. They not only explicitly differentiated this dimension of mental processes from conscious cognitive processes, but also offered reasoned arguments on behalf of this dimension of mind. This is the concept of the 'Buddhist unconscious', which arose just as philosophical discourse in other circles was fiercely debating the limits of conscious awareness, and these ideas in turn had developed as a systematisation of teachings from the Buddha himself. For us in the twenty-first century, these teachings connect in fascinating ways to the Western conceptions of the 'cognitive unconscious' which have been elaborated in the work of Jung and Freud.
