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Asanga. Japanese. Asaṅga ( Sanskrit: असंग, Tibetan: ཐོགས་མེད།, Wylie: thogs med, traditional Chinese: 無著; ; pinyin: Wúzhuó; Romaji: Mujaku) ( fl. 4th century C.E.) was one of the most important spiritual figures of Mahayana Buddhism and the founder of the Yogachara school. [1] [2] [3] Traditionally, he and his ...
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On Some Aspects of the Doctrines of Maitreya (natha) and the Asanga, Calcutta. ↑ Keenan, John P. (2003). "The summary of the Great Vehicle by Bodhisattva Asaṅga", transl. from the Chinese of Paramārtha (Taishō vol. 31, number 1593). Berkeley, Calif: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. ISBN 1-886439-21-4
Asaṅga (flourished 5th century ad, b. Puruṣapura, India) was an influential Buddhist philosopher who established the Yogācāra (“Practice of Yogā”) school of idealism. Asaṅga was the eldest of three brothers who were the sons of a Brahman, a court priest at Puruṣapura, and who all became monks in the Sarvāstivāda order (which ...
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Asanga 無著 (n.d.) (Skt; Jpn Mujaku ) A scholar of the Consciousness-Only Doctrine in India who is Thought to have lived in the fourth or fifth century. Born to a Brahman family at Purushapura in Gandhara, northern India, he contributed greatly to the systematization of the Consciousness-Only Doctrine. Vasubandhu was his younger brother.
Learn about Asanga, the founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism, and his influential works on ethics, meditation, and Maitreya teachings. Explore his biography, key texts, and commentaries in this comprehensive guide.
Buddhist Story: Asanga. Asanga was one of the most famous Indian Buddhist saints, and lived in the fourth century. He went to the mountains to do a solitary retreat, concentrating all his meditation practice on the Buddha Maitreya, in the fervent hope that he would be blessed with a vision of this Buddha and receive teachings from him.
Asanga. Asanga ( Thogs-med, Skt. Asaṅga) was born in approximately 375 CE in Purushapura, the main city of Gandhara, present-day northern Pakistan. His brahmin mother, Prakashashila ( gSal-ba’i tshul-khrims, Skt. Prakāśaśīl a), in her previous life, had been a learned Buddhist pandit, devoted to Avalokiteshvara.
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