Contexts and dialogue : Yogācāra Buddhism and modern by Tao Jiang PDF

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By Tao Jiang

ISBN-10: 0824831063

ISBN-13: 9780824831066

ISBN-10: 0824861981

ISBN-13: 9780824861988

ISBN-10: 1435666445

ISBN-13: 9781435666443

Are there Buddhist conceptions of the subconscious? if that is so, are they extra Freudian, Jungian, or anything else? If no longer, can Buddhist conceptions be reconciled with the Freudian, Jungian, or different versions? those are a few of the questions that experience prompted sleek scholarship to method alayavijnana, the storehouse awareness, formulated in Yogacara Buddhism as a subliminal reservoir of developments, conduct, and destiny chances. Tao Jiang argues convincingly that such questions are inherently complex simply because they body their interpretations of the Buddhist concept mostly when it comes to responses to fashionable psychology. He proposes that, if we're to appreciate alayavijnana competently and examine it with the subconscious responsibly, we have to switch the way in which the questions are posed in order that alayavijnana and the subconscious can first be understood inside of their very own contexts after which recontextualized inside a dialogical atmosphere. In so doing, convinced paradigmatic assumptions embedded within the unique frameworks of Buddhist and sleek mental theories are uncovered. Jiang brings jointly Xuan Zang's alayavijnana and Freud's and Jung's subconscious to target what the variations are within the thematic matters of the 3 theories, why such alterations exist when it comes to their goals, and the way their equipment of theorization give a contribution to those variations. "Contexts and discussion" places forth a desirable, erudite, and punctiliously argued presentation of the subliminal brain. It proposes a brand new paradigm in comparative philosophy that examines the what, why, and the way in navigating the similarities and alterations of philosophical structures via contextualization and recontextualization

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How are such differences formulated? Chapter Four deals with the what and the why aspects of the comparative study. I will look at the three theories from the perspective of the individual and collective dimensions of the subliminal consciousness and the dynamics between these two dimensions within each theory itself. We will see that the differences between the three are, in large part, due to the fact that Xuan Zang, Freud, and Jung, in their respective formulations, are trying to accomplish vastly different objectives, appealing to very different audiences and their concerns.

Stcherbatsky nicely summarizes the Buddhist teaching of momentariness: The theory of Universal Momentariness implies that every duration in time consists of point-instants following one another, every extension in space consists of point-instants arising in contiguity and simultaneously, every motion consists of these point-instants arising in contiguity and in succession. There is therefore no Time, no Space and no Motion over and above the point-instants of which these imagined entities are constructed by our imagination.

I will conclude by reflecting on the emerging new world as the ultimate new context for our dialogical inquiry. Even though the cross-cultural dialogical discourse might have been dogged by Western power and domination, as Said has acutely observed, we need to be reminded that such an observation is itself the result of the ongoing Orientalist discourse Said has critiqued. Therefore, instead of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, we should be encouraged by the fact that the Orientalist discourse has promoted some mutual understanding between cultures as well as enhancing the selfunderstanding of a culture in the face of another while being mindful of the risk involved.

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