Part I - The Background and Context of the laya-vijnana 1. The Early Buddhist Background 2. The Three Marks of Existence 3. The Formula of Dependent Arising 4. Causation and continuity without a self 5. Vinnana in the Formula of Dependent Arising 6. Vinnana as Consciousness 7. Karmic Formations and Craving increase Vinnana and Perpetuate Samsara 8.
Consciousness and the Potential for Karmic Fruition 9. Vinnana as Cognitive Awareness 10. Cognitive Processes and the Production of Karma 11. The Underlying Tendencies (anusaya) 12. The Underlying Tendency "I am" and Conceptual Proliferation 13. The Debate over Latent and Manifest 14. Reciprocal Causality Between the Two Aspects of Vinnana Part II - The Abhidharma Context 15. The Abhidharma Project and its Problematic 16.
Background of the Abhidharma 17. The Aim and Methods of Abhidharma: Dharma as Irreducible Unit of Experience 18. The Basic Problematic: Two Levels of Discourse Two Dimensions of Mind 19. Analysis of Mind and its Mental Factors 20. The Initial Formulation of the Problematic in its Synchronic Dimension: The Accumulation of Karmic Potential, the Presence of the Underlying Tendencies and their Gradual Purification in the Kathavatthu 21. The Problematic in its Diachronic Dimension: Immediate Succession vs the Continuity of Karmic Potential 22. The Persistence of Traditonal Continuities: Karma and Klesa in the AbhiDharma-Kosa 23. AbhiDharmic Responses to the Problematic 24.
The Sarvastivadin Theory of Possession 25. The Sautrantika Theory of Seeds in the Mental Stream 26. Questions Raised by Consciousness, Seeds and the Mental Stream 27. The Theravadin Theory of Life Constituent Mind 28. Conclusion Part III - The Alaya-vijnana in the Yogacara Tradition, The Alaya-vijnana in the Early Tradition 29. The Origins of the Alaya-vijnana 30. The New Model of Mind in the Samdhinirmocana Sutra 31. The Alaya-Vijnana as Mental Stream 32.
The Alaya Treatise of the Yogacarabhumi 33. The Proof Portion 34. The Alaya Treatise, Pravrtti Portion: Analysing the Alaya-Vijnana in Avhidharmic Terms 35. Its subliminal objective supports and cognitive processes 36. Its mutual and simulataneous relationship with manifest cognitive awareness 37. Manifest Cognitive Processes Produce Karma and Increase the Alaya-vijnana 38. Its Simultaneous Arising with Afflictive Mentation 39. The Alaya treatise, Nivrtti Portion: Equating the Alaya-Vijnana with Samsaric Continuity 40.
Conclusion Part IV - The Alaya-Vijnana in the Mahayana-samgraha I : Bringing It All Back Home 41. Appropriating the Traditional Buddhist Framework 42. Synonyms of the Alaya-vijnana in the Disciple's Vehicle 43. The Two Vijnanas and the Two Dependent Arisings 44. Seeding the Alaya-vijnana: The Karmic Process as Simultaneous Intrapsychic Causality 45. Resolving the Abhidharmic problematic 46. Karma, Rebirth and the Alaya-vijnana 47. The continuity of the Afflictions 48.
Afflicitve Mentation in the Mahayana-samgraha 49. The Path of Purification:Mundane and SupraMundane 50. Beyond Abhidharma: Adventitious Defilements, Pure Seeds and Luminous Minds Part V - The Alaya-vijnana in the Mahayana-samgraha II: Looking Beyond 51. The Predispositions of Speech, Self View and the Life Constituents 52. Common Experience, Common Embodiment: Language, the Alaya-vijnana and the Arising of the World.