300 - 301
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.
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Among philosophers, Asanga ranks 304 out of 1,081. Before him are Cleanthes, Johann Reuchlin, Miskawayh, Abraham ibn Ezra, Anne Sullivan, and Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi. After him are Hilary Putnam, Speusippus, Jacobus Arminius, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Ammonius Saccas, and Justus Lipsius.
330 BC - 232 BC
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 298
1455 - 1522
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 299
932 - 1030
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 300
1089 - 1167
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 301
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 302
1155 - 1191
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 303
300 - 301
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 304
1926 - 2016
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 305
407 BC - 339 BC
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 306
1560 - 1609
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 307
1857 - 1939
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 308
175 - 242
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 309
1547 - 1606
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 310
Among people born in 300, Asanga ranks 13. Before him are Pope Eutychian, Theodore of Amasea, Valerius Severus, Vincent of Saragossa, Macarius of Egypt, and Vātsyāyana. After him are Erasmus of Formia, Narseh, Expeditus, Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia, Hormizd II, and Zeno of Verona. Among people deceased in 301, Asanga ranks 1. After him are Maurus Servius Honoratus, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, Julius Obsequens, and Marina Severa.
300 - 283
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 7
300 - 306
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 8
300 - 307
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 9
300 - 304
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 10
300 - 391
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 11
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 12
300 - 301
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 13
300 - 303
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 14
300 - 302
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 15
300 - 303
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 16
300 - 306
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 17
300 - 309
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 18
300 - 371
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 19
300 - 301
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 1
363 - 301
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 2
301 - 301
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 3
400 - 301
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 4
350 - 301
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 5
Among people born in Pakistan, Asanga ranks 13 out of 180. Before him are Benazir Bhutto (1953), Bhagat Singh (1907), Kanishka (78), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Vasubandhu (400), and Porus (-400). After him are Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Abdus Salam (1926), Kabir Bedi (1946), and Har Gobind Khorana (1922).
1953 - 2007
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 7
1907 - 1931
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 8
78 - 144
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 9
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 10
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 11
400 BC - 316 BC
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 12
300 - 301
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 13
1876 - 1948
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 14
1290 - 1351
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 15
1928 - 1979
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 16
1926 - 1996
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 17
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 18
1922 - 2011
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 19
Among philosophers born in Pakistan, Asanga ranks 2. Before him are Chanakya (-375).