The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijñana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought

This important study reveals how the Buddhist unconscious illuminates and draws out aspects of current western thinking on the unconscious mind. One of the most intriguing connections is the idea that there is in fact no substantial ‘self’ underlying all mental activity; ‘the thoughts themselves are the thinker’. William S. Waldron considers the implications of this radical notion, which, despite only recently gaining plausibility, was in fact first posited 2,500 years ago.

Publisher: RoutyledgeCurzon
Date Published: 2006
Book Condition: Very good softcover with minor edge and corner wear to covers. A few marks to text block edges. Previous notes in pencil on the back endpaper. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.