Asaṅga

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Asaṅga was a 4th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and monk renowned as a principal founder and systematizer of the Yogācāra (Mind-Only) school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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Asaṅga canonical 18

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 4th-century philosopher
Buddhist monk
Buddhist philosopher
Indian philosopher
Mahāyāna Buddhist
Yogācāra scholar
associatedFigure Maitreya (Bodhisattva)
linked to: Maitreya
associatedWith Gandhāran Buddhism
linked to: Greco-Buddhist art

Sarvāstivāda school (early affiliation)
linked to: Sarvastivada school
category 4th-century Indian people
Indian Buddhist monks
Yogācāra philosophers
linked to: Yogācāra
countryOfOrigin India
doctrine bodhisattva path systematization
three natures (trisvabhāva)
three turnings of the Dharma wheel
ālaya-vijñāna (storehouse consciousness)
era 4th century
influenced Dharmapāla
East Asian Yogācāra
linked to: Yogācāra

Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism
Vasubandhu
Xuanzang
influencedBy Mahāyāna sūtras
linked to: Mahayana sutras

Maitreya-nātha (traditional attribution)
linked to: Maitreya

Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma
linked to: Abhidharma
knownFor Mind-Only doctrine
linked to: Yogācāra

doctrine of storehouse consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna)
founding the Yogācāra school
systematizing Yogācāra philosophy
works on Mahāyāna Abhidharma
language Sanskrit
laterAffiliation Mahāyāna Buddhism
linked to: Mahayana
majorWork Abhidharmasamuccaya
Mahāyānasaṃgraha
Mahāyānasaṃgraha-bhāṣya (commentary, traditional)
Mahāyānābhidharma texts
Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra (traditional attribution)
philosophicalSchool Vijñānavāda
Yogācāra
region Gandhāra
relationTypeWithVasubandhu elder brother
relative Vasubandhu
religion Buddhism
role principal founder of Yogācāra
systematizer of Mahāyāna Abhidharma
tradition Mahāyāna Buddhism
linked to: Mahayana
veneratedIn East Asian Buddhism
Indian Mahāyāna tradition
Tibetan Buddhism

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Yogācāra foundedBy Asaṅga
Hosso sect influencedBy Asaṅga
Hossō influencedBy Asaṅga
Vasubandhu influencedBy Asaṅga
Vasubandhu sibling Asaṅga
Shantarakshita influencedBy Asaṅga
Vijñānavāda keyFigure Asaṅga
Cittamātra keyFigure Asaṅga
Sthiramati influencedBy Asaṅga
Dharmapāla influencedBy Asaṅga
Kuiji influencedBy Asaṅga
Faxiang school influencedBy Asaṅga
Weishi school influencedBy Asaṅga
Tengyur containsWorksBy Asaṅga