Vasubandhu
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.
Person
- Born
- 0300-00-00
- Died
- 0399-00-00
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- Characterizing the onset and demise of the Indian summer monsoon
· 2016 · cited 94x
- Dynamic Downscaling of Seasonal Simulations over South America
· 2003 · cited 60x
- Evaluation of dynamically downscaled reanalysis precipitation data for hydrological application
· 2013 · cited 46x
- Tropical Meteorology
· 2013 · cited 43x
- Local onset and demise of the Indian summer monsoon
· 2017 · cited 43x
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Article
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.