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Asanga, born in the Gandara region of present-day Pakistan in the city of Purusapura (the modern Peshawar) as the third son of Prasannasila (or Prakasila), was probably active around the fourth or fifth century. ^ Kritzer, Robert. "Vasubandhu". Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism Online. ^ Rama Karana Sarma (1993).
Biography. Tibetan depiction of Asaṅga and Maitreya. According to later hagiographies, Asaṅga was born as the son of a high caste father in Puruṣapura (present day Peshawar in Pakistan), which at that time was part of the ancient kingdom of Gandhāra. [5] Current scholarship places him in the fourth century CE.
Asanga is one of the most pre-eminent masters of early Mahayana Buddhism and the main formulator of the Chittamatra tenet system.
Asaṅga 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 held the doctrine that.
Asanga(Skt. Asaṅga, Tib. ཐོགས་མེད་, Tokmé; Wyl. thogs med) — one of the most famous Indian saints, he lived in the fourth century and was the elder brother of Vasubandhu.
Asanga (Skt. Asaṅga; Tib. ཐོགས་མེད་, Tokmé, Wyl. thogs med) — one of the most famous Indian saints; he lived in the fourth century and was the elder brother of Vasubandhu. He received teachings from Maitreya and transcribed them as the ‘ Five Treatises of Maitreya ’.
Asanga, along with his brother Vasabandu, is an inestimably important figure in Mahayana Buddhism, associated with some of the most important works on ethical and moral dimensions of progress on the path, as well as the Yogacara philosophical school.
