Asanga

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.