What is Time?: Yogācāra-Buddhist Meditation on the Problem of the External World in the Cheng Weishi Lun
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https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2016.4.1.35-57Keywords:
time, vijñapti-mātratā, Cheng Weishi Lun, Dan Lusthaus, Lambert SchmithausenAbstract
Because it asserts that there is consciousness-only (vijñapti-mātratā), the difficulty in philosophically approaching the Yogācāra-Buddhist text Cheng weishi lun centers on the problem of the external world. This paper is based on a review by Lambert Schmithausen that, specifically with regard to the problem of the external world, questions Dan Lusthaus’s phenomenological investigation of the CWSL. In it I point out that the fundamental temporality of consciousness brought to light by the Yogacaric revelation of the incessant differentiation of consciousness (vijñāna-pariṇāma) calls into question every temporally conditioned, and hence appropriational, understanding of vijñapti-mātratā. Therefore, the problem of the external world cannot be approached without taking into account the temporality of consciousness, which, furthermore, compels us to face the riddle of time.
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Gradinarov, Plamen. 2005. “Husserl and Yogacara: Book Review on Buddhist Phenomenology.” Indo-Pacif Journal of Phenomenology 5 (1): 1.
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Lau, Laurence Y. K. 劉宇光. 2007. “Shuping: ‘Lusthaus fojiao xianxiangxue: fojiao quqiexing pai yu Cheng Weishi Lun zhexue yanjiu’ 書評：悅家丹《佛教現象學: 佛教瑜伽行派與<成唯識論>哲學研究》” Xianxiang xue yu renwen kexue di san qi: Xianxiang xue yu fojiao zhexue 現象學與人文科學第
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de La Vallée Poussin, Louis. 1928–1929. Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi. La Siddhi de Hiuan-tsang. Paris.
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Schmithausen, Lambert. 2005. On the Problem of the External World in the Ch’eng wei shih lun. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies.
T = Taisho shinshu daizokyo 大正新脩大藏經, edited by Takakusu Junjilo 高楠 順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭, 100 vols., Tokyo 1924ff.
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Wei, Tat 韋達. 1973. Ch’eng wei-shih lun 成唯識論. Hong Kong: The Ch’eng wei-shih lun Publication Committee.
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Li, Jianjun. 2016. “What Is Time?: Yogācāra-Buddhist Meditation on the Problem of the External World in the Cheng Weishi Lun”. Asian Studies 4 (1): 35-57. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2016.4.1.35-57.
