TypescriptVitaThesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Mison, 1990Includes bibliographical references (leaves 721-738)Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich.：UMI Dissertation Services, 1996. 22cm
關鍵詞
Alayavijnana
摘要
The thesis focuses on the relations between mind and $karma$ and the continuity of life in samsara based upon a concept of mind, the alayavijnana, as presented in the texts of Asanga and Vasubandhu of the Yogacara 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 vinnana of the Pali Canon and related concepts. It demonstrates that the major characteristics later predicated of the alayavijnana were present in an unsystematized but implicit form in the vinnana 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 klesa and $karma$, to which the Sautrantika 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 alayavijnana within the Yogacara school from a somatic ”life principle”, to an explicitly unconscious mind, to its final bifurcation into an unconscious afflicted mind (klista-manas) and a passive respository of $karmic$ seeds, the latent loci of klesa and $karma$, respectively. The last section compares the alayavijnana 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 alayavijnana, Chaps. V and VIII.37 of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra, part of the Viniscaya-samgrahani/ of the Yogacarabhumi, and Ch. 1 of the Mahayana-samgraha, are translated and extensively annotated in order to contextualize the minutiae of this concept of mind with its canonical precursors and its Abhidharmic contemporaries.
