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(Āryāsanga) (T)(Chagpa-Thog-Med) (c. 410-500). Also known as Asanga. Tradition has it that Aryasanga was the founder of the Yogacara or Naljorchodpa School in Buddhism. Not a great deal is known about his life, but it is said that he meditated in a cave for twelve years with no apparent progress and then gained enlightenment by his ...
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According to modern scholarship, Asaṅga was born a brahmin in the fourth century CE, and had a half-brother called Vasubandhu. He converted to Buddhism and spent twelve years in serious meditation alone in a cave (other versions say a forest) but his efforts were fruitless. When, in desperation Asaṅga was ready to quit, the Bodhisattva Maitreyaappe...
Mme. Blavatskyrejected the traditional view that Aryasanga lived in the fourth century CE, postulating that were two Aryasangas: According to her, the first Aryasanga was the founder of an esoteric school, while the latter founded an exoteric version of it: This possibility is not out of question. Scholar Dan Lusthaus recognizes that the Yogacara t...
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1. Aryasangain Theosophy World 2. Aryasangaat UniversalTheosophy.com
Asanga (also called Aryasanga ), (c 300 - 370 CE) , was an exponent of the yogācāra school of Buddhist Philosophy. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the founders of this school .
Teacher Aryasanga (known to us now as the Master Djwal Kul), and afterwards written out from memory by his pupil Alcyone. This book contains directions which carry us up to the level of the Arhat. It is written in many ways from a point of view quite different from that of the Master Hilarion: indeed, an examination of the similarities and the
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The ‘Alaya has an absolute eternal existence,’ says Aryasanga — the rival of Nagarjuna” (SD I:49). Blavatsky links the universal alaya with the personal ālaya-vijñāna: Alaya, though eternal and changeless in its inner essence on the planes which are unreachable by either men or Cosmic Gods (Dhyani Buddhas), alters during the active ...
Who was Aryasanga, the mysterious teacher of theosophy and the founder of the Mahayana school of Buddhism? Find out in this fascinating article by J.D. Buck, a prominent theosophist and occultist of the 19th century. Learn about the history, doctrines, and practices of the Arya Sangha, the noble community of spiritual seekers who follow the path of wisdom and compassion.
Asanga (also called Aryasanga), born around 300 C.E., was a great exponent of the Yogacara.. Born in Gandhara in north India as a Brahmin’s son, he was perhaps originally a member of the Mahīśāsaka or the Mūlasarvāstivāda school but later converted to Mahāyāna; after many years of intense meditation, during which time some traditions say that he often visited Tushita Heaven to ...
