Gareth Sparham, is unusual in that he is a respected academic and also has been a Buddhist monk for twenty years. He presently teaches at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C. He is an accomplished Sanskritist whose work on the Indian Buddhist writer Haribhadra has been published by Motilal Banarsidass. He spends part of his time in Dharmsala, India.

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Preface

Technical Note

Introduction

The general context for the arising of the alaya-vijnana doctrine
 Origins of the Yogacara alaya-vijnana doctrine
 Samkhya and Yogacara
 The alaya-vijnana within the eight-consciousness model
 Tsong kha pa's exegesis
 Life of Tsong kha pa
 Problems of interpretation in Tsong kha pa's earlier and later works
 Early teachers and date of the text
Kun gzhi in Tsong kha pa's later works
Kun gzhi in Tibet before Tsong kha pa
Kun gzhi at the time of Tsong kha pa
 Concluding Remarks

Translation

1. Introduction: Origins of the Mind Only Doctrine

2. Alaya-vijnana as Basis

Residual impressions as objective support
 Nature of the alaya-vijnana
 Five mental factors
 Etymology of alaya-vijnana

3. Alaya-vijnana as Seed

Mechanics of seed information
 Divisions of vasana
 Relation of the seeds and basis
 Characteristics of vasana

4. Seeds of Deliverance

Derivation of the word alaya
 Cessation fo alaya-vijnana

5. Definition of Klista-manas

6. Proofs of Alaya-vijnana

Eight proofs
 Discursus

7. Proofs of Klista-manas

8. Two Refutations and Final Remarks

Refuting a set of nine consciousnesses
 Refuting a set of one consciousness
 Concluding Remarks

Tibetan Text

Bibliography

Index