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Article: The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought.(Book Review)
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- April 1, 2005
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The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought. By William S. Waldron. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Pp. xvi + 269. $90.00.
The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijnana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought by William S. Waldron is an examination of the origins of the Yogacara concept of alaya-vijnana, or "storehouse-consciousness." Where orthodox Buddhist psychology speaks of six types of consciousness (one for each external sense modality, plus one for "inner sense" or manas), the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism posits an additional kind of consciousness to serve as the substratum of the seeds thought to be ...