Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Origin: Mahasaaghika 2.1 The Origin of Self-Cognition 2.2 The Mahasaaghika Theory of Self-Cognition 2.2.1 Mahasaaghika and Its Abhidharma 2.2.2 All-Knowing Awareness 2.2.

3 The Self-Cognition of the Mind and Mental Activities 2.2.4 "Rang rig pa yin no" 2.2.5 Influence on Yogacara 2.3 The Andhakas' Arguments for Self-Cognition 2.3.1 The Andhakas 2.

3.2 Awareness of the Present 2.3.3 Attending to All at Once 3 Refutation: Sarvastivada 3.1 Sarvastivada Abhidharma 3.2 Awareness of Single Moment 3.3 Refutation of Self-Awareness 3.3.

1 Causality 3.3.2 The Similes 3.3.3 Epistemology 3.3.4 Soteriology 3.3.

5 Self and Other 3.3.6 The Particular and Universal 3.4 Discussion of Self-Consciousness 3.4.1 Consciousness and Awareness 3.4.2 Can Consciousness Know Itself? 3.

5 Two Minds and Memory 3.5.1 Can Two Minds Function Simultaneously? 3.5.2 How is Memory Possible? 3.6 The Problem of Self-Feeling 3.6.1 Awareness of Feeling 3.

6.2 Self-Feeling and Self-Cognition 3.6.3 Three Types of Perception 4 Synthesis: Sautrantika 4.1 Sautrantika: Sources 4.2 Multiple Minds 4.2.1 Minds Arising Successively 4.

2.2 How Does the Mind Know Itself? 4.3 Mental Consciousness 4.3.1 "Mental Consciousness is Self-Cognizant" 4.3.2 Cessation of Self-Cognition 4.4 Proof of Self-Cognition 5 Systematization: Yogacara 5.

1 Yogacara and Its Two Schools 5.2 Self-Cognition in Early Yogacara 5.2.1 Self-Realization 5.2.2 The Self-Knowledge of Consciousness 5.3 Self-Cognition: Dignaga 5.3.

1 Self-Cognition as a Type of Perception 5.3.2 Self-Cognition and Other Types of Perception 5.3.3 Self-Cognition and the Dual Appearance of Cognition 5.4 Cognition of Self-Cognition: Dharmapala 5.5 Later Development 6 Conclusion Appendix: Dates of Important Authors Bibliography.