Asanga, who flourished in the fourth century CE, was one of the most important spiritual figures of Mahayana Buddhism and the founder of the Yogachara school; he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are traditionally regarded as the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, Vijnanavada thought, also called the doctrine of mere representation, and Mahayana teachings on the bodhisattva path. He is also traditionally counted among the seventeen Nalanda masters who taught at the monastery located in what is now Bihar, India.
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Defining MomentUsed meditative powers to travel to Tushita Heaven to receive teachings from Maitreya Bodhisattva 1 Notable PublicationMahayanasamgraha (Summary of the Great Vehicle) 1 Office HeldOne of the seventeen Nalanda masters 1 BirthplacePurushapura (present day Peshawar, Pakistan) 1 Connections
Associated With
Asanga co-founded Yogacara with his brother Vasubandhu, who carries the Founded By edge above; both names are standardly credited together.
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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- Also in Geography Atlas: India, originated there.
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1. Asanga - Wikipedia
Biography section, birthplace
born in Purusapura, present day Peshawar in Pakistan
Opening paragraph, tradition
founder of the Yogachara school
Biography section, Tushita
used his meditative powers, siddhis, to travel to Tusita Heaven to receive teachings from Maitreya Bodhisattva
Works section
Mahayanasamgraha, Summary of the Great Vehicle
Opening paragraph, Nalanda master
one of the seventeen Nalanda masters who taught at the monastery
Lead section, nationality sentence
Asaṅga (Sanskrit: असंग, Tibetan: ཐོགས་མེད།, Wylie: thogs med, traditional Chinese: 無著; ; pinyin: Wúzhuó; Romaji: Mujaku) (fl.
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