Asaṅga

Asaṅga

▪ Indian scholar

flourished 5th century AD, , b. Puruṣapura, India

      influential Buddhist philosopher who established the Yogācāra (“Practice of Yogā”) school of idealism.

      Asaṅga was the eldest of three brothers who were the sons of a Brahman, a court priest at Puruṣapura, and who all became monks in the Sarvāstivāda order (which held the doctrine that “all is real”). Dissatisfied with the Hīnayāna concepts of śūnyatā (“emptiness”) and pudgala (“person”), he turned to the Mahāyāna tradition and was credited also with winning over his brother Vasubandhu, who made many important contributions to Mahāyāna scholarship.

      Asaṅga's teacher in the Yogācāra doctrine was Maitreyanātha, who lived about 275–350. The Yogācāra school (also called Vijñānavāda, or “Doctrine of Consciousness”) held that the external world exists only as mental images that have no real permanence. A “storehouse” of consciousness (the ālaya-vijñāna) contains the trace impressions of the past and the potentialities of future actions. Asaṅga's great contribution was his development of Maitreyanātha's teaching, analysis of the ālaya-vijñāna, and setting forth of the stages (bhūmi) leading to Buddhahood. Among his important works is the Mahāyāna-saṃgraha (“Compendium of the Mahāyāna”).

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