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Vasubandhu

400 - 400

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Vasubandhu (traditional Chinese: 世親; ; pinyin: Shìqīn; Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་ Wylie: dbyig gnyen; fl. 4th to 5th century CE) was an influential Indian Buddhist monk and scholar. He was a philosopher who wrote commentary on the Abhidharma, from the perspectives of the Sarvastivada and Sautrāntika schools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasubandhu has received more than 359,805 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Vasubandhu is the 588th most popular writer (up from 629th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 11th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Writer.

Vasubandhu is most famous for his work on the Yogacara school of Buddhism. He is also famous for his commentary on the Abhidharma-kośa and his work on the Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā.

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Notable Works

Abhidharmakośa
1931
Vijñapti mātratāsiddhiḥ
1962
Seven works of Vasubandhu, the Buddhist psychological doctor
Religion
Vasubandhu is one of the most prominent figures in the development of Mahayana Buddhism in India. His name can be found in any history of Buddhism or of India in the Gupta period. However hardly any of his works has been translated into English. The seven treatises presented here are complete works with a most varied range of topics and serve at least as an introduction to his thought. This collection of translations includes the Vada-Vidhi, a work on logic; the Panca-skandhaka-Prakarana, which deals with the 'aggregates' making up 'personality'; the Karmasiddhi-prakarana, which in explaining psychic continuity, also attacks many features of earlier Buddhist psychology; the famous Vimsatika and Trimsika, which take Buddhist psychology into hitherto unexplored areas; the Madhyanta-Vibhaga-bhasya, one of the most profound books for Mahayana realization; and the Tri-svabhava-nirdesa which shows a way for ridding consciousness of ensnaring mental constructions. A glossary of key words is included, as are the texts of those works which survive in Sanskrit. Each translation is prefaced by an explanatory introduction and is followed by notes. These include also references to other Indian philosophical systems and occasional comparisons with modern Western psychological systems, particularly where the latter seem inadequate in comparison with Vasubandhu's Yogacara.
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Abhidharmakośabhāṣyaṃ
1969
Daśabhūmikavyākhyāna
1976
Three works of Vasubandhu in Sanskrit manuscript
1989

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasubandhu ranks 588 out of 7,302. Before him are Enid Blyton, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Samuel Butler, Allen Ginsberg, Su Shi, and Wang Wei. After him are Bruno Schulz, D. H. Lawrence, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ellen G. White, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, and Ismail Gaspirali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400, Vasubandhu ranks 7. Before him are Pope Celestine I, Kālidāsa, Saint Ursula, Merovech, Pope Zosimus, and Olybrius. After him are Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Alexius of Rome, Ermanaric, Aspar, Yazdegerd I, and Fritigern. Among people deceased in 400, Vasubandhu ranks 2. Before him is Onuphrius. After him are Heliodorus of Emesa, Eutropius, Thaïs, Flavia Maximiana Theodora, Eustathius of Antioch, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Gaius Julius Solinus, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Varazdat, and Mallobaudes.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Vasubandhu ranks 10 out of 217. Before him are Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Guru Nanak (1469), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Pāṇini (-500), Bhagat Singh (1907), and Benazir Bhutto (1953). After him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Porus (-400), Abdus Salam (1926), Asanga (300), and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Vasubandhu ranks 2. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877). After him are Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Bulleh Shah (1680), Rahman Baba (1632), Krishna Sobti (1925), Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690).

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