PHILOSOPHER

Asanga

300 - 301

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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. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, Vijñanavada (awareness only; also called Vijñaptivāda, the doctrine of ideas or percepts, and Vijñaptimātratā-vāda, the doctrine of 'mere representation) thought and Mahayana teachings on the bodhisattva path. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Asanga has received more than 252,731 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Asanga is the 333rd most popular philosopher (down from 304th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 13th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Philosopher.

He was a Buddhist monk who was the founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. He is most famous for his theory of ālayavijñāna, which is a theory that says that the world is created by the mind and that the world is an illusion.

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  • 250k

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  • 63.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Asanga ranks 333 out of 1,267. Before him are Aristoxenus, Johann Georg Hamann, Hermann Cohen, Edgar Morin, Wang Yangming, and Justus Lipsius. After him are Thrasymachus, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, A. S. Neill, Lev Shestov, Anne Sullivan, and David Strauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 300, Asanga ranks 12. Before him are Pope Julius I, Valerius Severus, Vincent of Saragossa, Pope Eutychian, Theodore of Amasea, and Macarius of Egypt. After him are Narseh, Erasmus of Formia, Expeditus, Vātsyāyana, Hormizd II, and Volusianus. Among people deceased in 301, Asanga ranks 1. After him are Maurus Servius Honoratus, Sima Lun, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, Hripsime, Julius Obsequens, and Marina Severa.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Asanga ranks 15 out of 217. Before him are Benazir Bhutto (1953), Vasubandhu (400), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Porus (-400), and Abdus Salam (1926). After him are Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Har Gobind Khorana (1922), Ranjit Singh (1780), Aga Khan III (1877), Imran Khan (1952), and Dev Anand (1923).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Pakistan

Among philosophers born in Pakistan, Asanga ranks 2. Before him are Chanakya (-375). After him are Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919).

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