Asanga

Asanga

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 235,256 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Asanga is the 304th most popular philosopher (up from 328th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Pakistan 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.