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Vasubandhu
Sign in to saveVasubandhu (; Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་ ; fl. 4th to 5th century CE) was an influential Indian Buddhist monk and scholar. He was a philosopher who wrote commentary on the Abhidharma, from the perspectives of the Sarvastivada and Sautrāntika schools. After his conversion to Mahayana Buddhism, along with his brother, Asanga, he was also one of the main founders of the Yogacara school.
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Vasubandhu was a male philosopher, writer, Buddhist monk, and author who lived from 300 to 399. Born in Peshawar within the Gupta Empire and Gandhara, he practiced Buddhism and the Yogacara worldview. He wrote in Sanskrit and is identified as a founder. His notable works include the Abhidharma-kosa, Vimśatikāvijñaptimātratāsiddhi, Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā, and the Treatise on the Sutra of Limitless Life.
He was the sibling of Asanga and had students including Sthiramati and Dignāga. Vasubandhu is referenced by 2,589 other encyclopedia articles. His name in native languages is वसुबन्धु and Родич Достатку. He is listed on the Wikipedia Vital Articles Level 4 focus list.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
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Top works
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- Tropical Meteorology
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- Vasubandhu as a founding master of the Yogācāra school in a Chinese woodblock print collection "Portraits of the Buddha and Ancestral Masters" 佛祖正宗道影 (1880) by the Chinese monk Shouyi 守一.
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Life and works
- Attributed works
- Treatises
- Commentaries
- Two Vasubandhus theory
- Philosophy
- Abhidharma
- Critique of the self
- Momentariness
- Yogacara theories
- Appearance only
- Three natures and non-duality
- Logic
- Works
- Notes
- References
- External links
Vasubandhu (; Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་ ; fl. 4th to 5th century CE) was an influential Indian Buddhist monk and scholar. He was a philosopher who wrote commentary on the Abhidharma, from the perspectives of the Sarvastivada and Sautrāntika schools. After his conversion to Mahayana Buddhism, along with his brother, Asanga, he was also one of the main founders of the Yogacara school.
Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośakārikā ("Commentary on the Treasury of the Abhidharma") is widely used in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism, as the major source for non-Mahayana Abhidharma philosophy. His philosophical verse works set forth the standard for the Indian Yogacara metaphysics of "appearance only" (vijñapti-mātra), which has been described as a form of "epistemological idealism", phenomenology and close to Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism. Apart from this, he wrote several commentaries, works on logic, argumentation and devotional poetry.
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