AUTHOR: Ovidiu NEDU A BUDDHIST MAJOR WORK.VASUBANDHU, VIJÑAPTIMĀTRATĀSIDDHI. VIMŚIKĀKĀRIKĀ CU VIMŚIKĀKĀRIKĀVRTTI (THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOLE EXISTENCE OF REPRESENTATIONS. THE TREATISE IN 20 VERSES, WITH THE COMMENTARY ON THE TREATISE IN 20 VERSES) Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 297-324. Abstract Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi is one of the major works of Vasubandhu, the founder of Vijñānavāda school of…

AUTHOR: Ovidiu Cristian NEDU THE MIND (MANAS) AND THE ILLUSORY PROJECTION OF THE AFFLICTED (KLIȘȚA) INDIVIDUAL SELF (ĀTMAN), IN VIJÑĀNAVĀDA BUDDHISM Abstract According to Vijñanavada, the idealist school of Buddhism, individual being represents an erroneous limited projection of the universal consciousness, of the storehouse consciousness (alayavijñana). The sphere of human experience does not represent a…

AUTHOR: Ovidiu-Cristian NEDU Danubius, XXXII, Galati, 2014, pp. 459-496. Abstract After being engendered through the appropriating activity (upadana) of the mind (manas), applied to the universal experience of the storehouse consciousness (alayavijñana), the individual experience is constituted through the conjoint activity of the six “operational consciousnesses” (pravrtti vijñana): the five sensory consciousnesses and the mental…