The primary source for the former is the Abhidharma-kośa by Vasubandhu and its commentaries.

Vasubandhu is said to have taken up Mahāyāna Buddhism after meeting with Asaṅga and one of Asaṅga's disciples.

He is flanked by his two acolytes, the brothers Asanga and Vasubandhu.

Vasubandhu is considered to be the sytematizer of Yogacara-thought.

Vasubandhu is considered to be the sytematizer of Yogacara-thought.

The presentation of the three natures by Vasubandhu is consistent with the Neo-platonist views of Plotinus and his universal ' One ', ' Mind ', and ' Soul '.

Vasubandhu is one of the most influential figures in the entire history of Buddhism.

Vasubandhu contributed to Buddhist logic and is held to have been the origin of formal logic in the Dharmic logico-epistemological tradition.

* The Chinese / Japanese Kusha school is considered an offshoot of Sarvāstivāda, influenced by Vasubandhu.

Peter Harvey agrees with criticisms levelled against the Pudgalavadins by Moggaliputta-Tissa and Vasubandhu, and finds that there is no support in the Theravada nikayas for their " person "- concept.

However, it is also to be noted that the Yoga Sutra, especially the fourth segment of Kaivalya Pada, contains several polemical verses critical of Buddhism, particularly the Vijñānavāda school of Vasubandhu.

The Thirty Verses on Consciousness-only ( Sanskrit: ; ) is a brief poetic treatise by the Indian Buddhist scholar Vasubandhu.

270-350 CE ) is a name whose use was pioneered by Buddhist scholars Erich Frauwallner, Giuseppe Tucci, and Hakuju Ui to distinguish one of the three founders of the Yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy, along with Asaṅga and Vasubandhu.

Associated with it is a prose commentary ( bhāsya ) by Vasubandhu and several sub-comentaries by Sthiramati and others ; the portions by Maitreya-nātha and Vasubandhu both survive in Sanskrit as well as Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian translations.

Abhidharma-kośa ( Sanskrit ; Tibetan: chos mngon pa ' i mdzod ; English: Treasury of Abhidharma ) is a key text on the abhidharma written in Sanskrit verse by Vasubandhu.

He was born into a Brahmin family in Simhavakta ( near Kanchi Kanchipuram ), and very little is known of his early years, except that he took as his spiritual preceptor Nagadatta of the Vatsiputriya school, before being expelled and becoming a student of Vasubandhu.

Nevertheless, it is important to note at this point that the store-consciousness is by no means considered to be an ultimate reality in the works of either Vasubandhu the Yogacarin or Asanga, as has sometimes been suggested.

Yogācāra, which had its genesis in the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, was largely formulated by the brahmin born half-brothers Vasubandhu and Asaṅga ( who was said to be inspired by the quasihistorical Maitreya-nātha, or the divine Maitreya ).

Born a brahmin Vasubandhu was said to have been the half brother of Asanga, another key personage in the founding of the Yogacara School.

Asanga's brother Vasubandhu wrote a large number of texts associated with the Yogacara including: Trivabhāva-nirdesha, Vimshatika, Trimshika, and the Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya although this work predates his conversion to the Mahayana and a minority of scholars speculate that there may have been two different Vasubandhus who composed these works.

In his synthesis text, readers are advised to adopt Madhyamaka view and approach from Nagarjuna and Aryadeva when analyzing for ultimacy and to adopt the mind-only views of the Yogacarans Asanga and Vasubandhu when considering conventional truth.

Among the many Buddhist lineages he studied, practiced and transmitted the three main lineages were the Lineage of the Profound Action transmitted by Maitreya / Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, the Lineage of Profound View transmitted by Manjushri / Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, and the Lineage of Profound Experience transmitted by Vajradhara / Tilopa, Naropa.

There, he studied the Consciousness Only teachings passed down from Asanga and Vasubandhu, and taught to him by the abbot Silabhadra.

* Abhidharma Kosha Bhashyam 4 vols, Vasubandhu, translated into English by Leo Pruden ( based on Louis de la Vallée Poussin ’ s French translation ), Asian Humanities Press, Berkeley, 1988-90.

#* Treasury of Higher Knowledge ( Abhidharma Kosha ) by Vasubandhu

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However, later Sarvāstivādin master Samghabhadra considered that he misrepresented their school in the process, and at this point designated Vasubandhu as a Sautrantika ( upholder of the sutras ) rather than as an upholder of the Abhidharma.

#* Treasury of Higher Knowledge ( Abhidharma Kośa ) by Vasubandhu

It seems at least possible that both Vasubandhu and Asaṅga presented their respective versions of such a method, analogous to but different from modern Theravāda insight meditation, and that Gelukpa scholars were unable to reconstruct it in the absence of a practice tradition because of the great difference between this type of inductive meditative reasoning based on observation and the types of meditative reasoning using consequences ( thal ' gyur, prasaanga ) or syllogisms ( sbyor ba, prayoga ) with which Gelukpas were familiar.

* Vasubandhu ( c. 300 CE ), one of the main founders of the Indian Yogacara school.

Yogacārins base their views on texts from Maitreya, Asaṅga and Vasubandhu, Madhyamakas on Nāgārjuna and Āryadeva.

Anacker ( 2005: p. 20 ), in the introduction to his translation of seven works by Vasubandhu ( fl.

Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the founders of this school.

Asaṅga had a half-brother, Vasubandhu, who was a monk from the Sarvāstivāda school.

In the Buddhist traditions of India, Pure Land doctrines and practices were disseminated by well-known exponents of the Mahāyāna teachings, including Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu.

The important scholars present in his court were Harishena, Vasubandhu and Asanga.

The presence of the two celebrated literary personalities like Harisena and Vasubandhu definitely proves that he was a great patron of men of letters.

His patronage to Buddhist scholar Vasubandhu and the acceptance of the request of Mahendra, the king of Ceylon to build a Buddhist monastery at Bodh Gaya amply prove that he respected other religions.

According to some interpretations, Vasubandhu and Asaṅga in particular did not.

According to the traditional interpretation, Vasubandhu states that there are eight consciousnesses: the five sense-consciousnesses, mind ( perception ), manas ( self-consciousness ), and the storehouse-consciousness.

The Treatise on Action ( Karmasiddhiprakaraṇa ), also by Vasubandhu, treats the subject of karma in detail from the Yogācāra perspective.

Although Vasubandhu had postulated numerous ālaya-vijñāna-s, a separate one for each individual person in the para-kalpita, this multiplicity was later eliminated in the Fa Hsiang and Hua Yen metaphysics.

The Yogacara ( 瑜伽行派 Yugagyōha ) schools are based on early Indian Buddhist thought by masters such as Vasubandhu, and are also known as " consciousness only " since they teach a form of idealism which posits that all phenomena are phenomena of the mind.

Kusha school takes its name from its authoritative text, the Abidatsuma-kusha-ron ( Sanskrit: Abhidharma-kosa ), by the 4th-or 5th-century Indian philosopher Vasubandhu.

Vasubandhu ( Sanskrit: वस ु बन ् द ु; ; ) ( fl.

However, some scholars consider Vasubandhu to be two distinct people.