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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

The Buddhist Unconscious

The Alaya-vijnana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought

by William S. Waldron

A study of the storehouse consciousness, tracing how Indian Buddhists developed the idea to explain karmic continuity. The author also compares it cautiously with modern ideas of the unconscious.

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