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WRITER

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 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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  • 64.47

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.27

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  • 2.73

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasubandhu ranks 630 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400, Vasubandhu ranks 9Before 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 1After 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.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Vasubandhu ranks 11 out of 180Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Vasubandhu ranks 2Before 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).