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It interprets Yogācāra Buddhism as a coherent system of ideas and practices in relation to the path to liberation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMahāyāna Buddhism arose in classical India and flourished in China, Tibet, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. While one of its major Indian schools, the Middle Way (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMadhyamaka\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) focuses on the concept of emptiness—that all phenomena lack their own essence—the Yoga Practitioners school (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYogācāra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) focuses on the cognitive processes whereby we impute such essences. Through everyday examples and analogues in cognitive science, author William Waldron makes Yogācāra’s core teachings—the three turnings of the Dharma-wheel, the three-nature theory, the store-house consciousness, and the idea of mere perception—accessible to a general audience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCountering the common view of Yogācāra as a form of idealism, Waldron treats Yogācāra Buddhism as a coherent system of ideas and practices \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon its own terms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with dependent arising its guiding principle. He first examines early Buddhist texts that show how our affective and cognitive processes shape the way objects and worlds appear to us, and how we erroneously grasp onto them as essentially real—perpetuating the engrained habits that bind us to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003esaṃsāra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. After analyzing the early Madhyamaka critique of essences, he then examines how Yogācāra texts, such as the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSaṃdhinirmocana Sūtra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStages of Yogic Practice,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e build upon these earlier ideas to argue that our constructive processes also occur unconsciously. Not only are we collectively, yet mostly unknowingly, constructing our shared realities—our cultural worlds—they are also mediated through the store-house consciousness (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eālaya-vijñāna\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)—functioning as a kind of “cultural unconscious.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNext, Vasubandhu’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty Verses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e argues that we can learn to recognize such objects and worlds \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “mere perceptions” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003evijñāpti-mātra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and thereby abandon our enchantment with the products of our own cognitive processes. The author walks us through the Mahāyāna path to this transformation as gracefully laid out in Maitreya’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDistinguishing Phenomena from their Ultimate Nature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Finally, he considers how Yogācāra perspectives inspire us to rethink religion in our scientific and pluralistic age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBill Waldron\u003c\/strong\u003e got his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1990 after extensive travel and study in Asia with native Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese scholars and three years of research at Ōtani University in Kyoto, Japan. He has been teaching courses at Middlebury College since 1996 on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, comparative philosophies of mind, and theory and method in the study of religion. His publications focus on the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism in dialogue with modern thought. His first book, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Buddhist Unconscious: The Ālaya-Vijñāna in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by RoutledgeCurzon in 2003. He regularly gives talks and workshops at Dharma study groups in America and Asia, focusing on Yogācāra and contemporary topics. 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