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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/on-the-development-from-one-ty
 pe-of-consciousness-at-one-moment-to-multiple-types-of-consciousness-at-on
 e-moment-in-the-buddhist-philosophy-of-consciousness/
SUMMARY:On the Development From "One Type of Consciousness at One Moment" t
 o "Multiple Types of Consciousness at One Moment" in the Buddhist Philosop
 hy of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Inst
 itute\, Harvard University\n\nZoom registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/m
 eeting/register/tJUrc-CvpzsvGtLPBB_Gmkjd7sd9oP8mosn1\n\nThis talk focuse
 s on a radical but\, until now\, much neglected change in Buddhist accou
 nt of consciousness (meaning roughly “cognition” in this context)
  that took place from the Abhidharma tradition\, (beginning roughly f
 rom the 3rd century BCE) to the Yogācāra tradition\, (beginning ro
 ughly from the 3rd century CE). Namely\, Abhidharma insists that only o
 ne type of consciousness arises at one moment\, but Yogācāra allows t
 he arising of multiple types of consciousness at one moment. What might ha
 ve triggered such a radical change and development? I suggest that a ten
 sion was already there in Abhidharma that might have led to the Yogāc
 āra position. Namely\, Abhidharma holds two premises at the same time: (
 1) omnipresent (mahābhūmika) mental concomitants (caitta) must arise at 
 the same time when any of the six types of consciousness arises\; (2) the 
 omnipresent mental concomitants arise through the functioning of the menta
 l consciousness. These two premises taken together implies that the menta
 l consciousness must arise at the same moment as a sensory consciousness a
 rises\, hence two types of consciousness arise at the same moment. 
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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