400 - 400
Vasubandhu (traditional Chinese: 世親; ; pinyin: Shìqīn; Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་ Wylie: dbyig gnyen; fl. 4th to 5th century CE) was an influential Buddhist monk and scholar from Gandhara. 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 335,173 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Vasubandhu is the 630th most popular writer (up from 762nd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 12th 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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Among writers, Vasubandhu ranks 630 out of 5,755. Before him are Georg Büchner, Robert Ludlum, Ivan Franko, John Irving, Edward Bernays, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. After him are Poliziano, Carlo Gozzi, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Curzio Malaparte, Edmond Rostand, and Leo Africanus.
1813 - 1837
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 624
1927 - 2001
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 625
1856 - 1916
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 626
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 627
1891 - 1995
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 628
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 629
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 630
1454 - 1494
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 631
1720 - 1806
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 632
1090 - 1155
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 633
1898 - 1957
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 634
1868 - 1918
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 635
1494 - 1554
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 636
Among people born in 400, Vasubandhu ranks 9. Before him are Merovech, Saint Ursula, Pope Zosimus, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Olybrius, and Alexius of Rome. After him are Ermanaric, Yazdegerd I, Constantine III, Chandragupta II, Fritigern, and Antipope Ursicinus. Among people deceased in 400, Vasubandhu ranks 1. After him are Onuphrius, Heliodorus of Emesa, Thaïs, Flavia Maximiana Theodora, Eutropius, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Gaius Julius Solinus, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Eustathius of Antioch, Juvencus, and Mallobaudes.
400 - 457
HPI: 70.91
Rank: 3
400 - 383
HPI: 70.90
Rank: 4
400 - 418
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 5
400 - 450
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 6
400 - 472
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 7
400 - 412
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 8
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 9
400 - 376
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 10
400 - 421
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 11
400 - 411
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 12
400 - 500
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 13
400 - 380
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 14
400 - 384
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 15
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 1
320 - 400
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 2
250 - 400
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 3
350 - 400
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 4
270 - 400
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 5
320 - 400
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 6
400 - 400
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 7
400 - 400
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 8
400 - 400
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 9
300 - 400
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 10
400 - 400
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 11
400 - 400
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 12
Among people born in Pakistan, Vasubandhu ranks 11 out of 180. Before him are Pāṇini (-500), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Bhagat Singh (1907), Kanishka (78), and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910). After him are Porus (-400), Asanga (300), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), and Abdus Salam (1926).
500 BC - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 5
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 6
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
Among writers born in Pakistan, Vasubandhu ranks 2. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877). After him are Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Rahman Baba (1632), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Parveen Shakir (1952).
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 1
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 2
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 3
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 4
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 5
1632 - 1706
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 6
1911 - 1984
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 8
1915 - 2014
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 9
1905 - 2004
HPI: 42.24
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 11
1952 - 1994
HPI: 36.45
Rank: 12