Asanga
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Japanese art|Japanese wood statue of Asaṅga from 1208 CE Asaṅga (Sanskrit: असंग, , ; Romaji: Mujaku) (fl. 4th century C.E.) was one of the most important spiritual figures of Mahayana Buddhism and the founder of the Yogachara school. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, Vijñanavada (awareness only; also called Vijñaptivāda, the doctrine of ideas or percepts, and Vijñaptimātratā-vāda, the doctrine of 'mere representation) thought and Mahayana teachings on the bodhisattva path. He is
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 0310-01-01
- Died
- 0301-01-01
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle : An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras
- A Compendium of the Mahayana
- La somme du Grand Véhicule d'Asaṅga (Mahāyānasaṃgraha)
- The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment
- She da sheng lun
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 25
- Total plays
- 45
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5 total works indexed
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,008x
- Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,282x
- Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,269x
- Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2022 · cited 1,780x
- Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 1,541x
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Key dates
- Died
- 1 January 301
- Born
- 1 January 310
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Peshawar
- Sibling
- Vasubandhu
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Student of
- Maitreya-nātha
- Image
- Asanga.JPG
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- Peshawar
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6 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Works
- The Maitreya Corpus
- References
- Bibliography
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thumb|upright|Japanese art|Japanese wood statue of Asaṅga from 1208 CE Asaṅga (Sanskrit: असंग, , ; Romaji: Mujaku) (fl. 4th century C.E.) was one of the most important spiritual figures of Mahayana Buddhism and the founder of the Yogachara school. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, Vijñanavada (awareness only; also called Vijñaptivāda, the doctrine of ideas or percepts, and Vijñaptimātratā-vāda, the doctrine of 'mere representation) thought and Mahayana teachings on the bodhisattva path. He is also traditionally considered as one of the seventeen Nalanda masters who taught at the monastery which is located in modern-day Bihar.
==Biography== thumb|upright|Tibetan Buddhism|Tibetan depiction of Asaṅga and [[Maitreya]]