PHILOSOPHER

Asanga

300 - 301

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Asaṅga (Sanskrit: असंग, Tibetan: ཐོགས་མེད།, Wylie: thogs med, traditional Chinese: 無著; ; pinyin: Wúzhuó; Romaji: Mujaku) (fl. 4th century C.E.) was one of the most important spiritual figures of Mahayana Buddhism and the founder of the Yogachara school. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, Vijñanavada (awareness only; also called Vijñaptivāda, the doctrine of ideas or percepts, and Vijñaptimātratā-vāda, the doctrine of 'mere representation) thought and Mahayana teachings on the bodhisattva path. He is also traditionally considered as one of the seventeen Nalanda masters who taught at the monastery which is located in modern-day Bihar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Asanga is the 331st most popular philosopher (up from 333rd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Philosopher.

He was a Buddhist monk who was the founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. He is most famous for his theory of ālayavijñāna, which is a theory that says that the world is created by the mind and that the world is an illusion.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Asanga ranks 331 out of 1,267. Before him are Cleobulus, G. E. Moore, Uriel da Costa, Hugh of Saint Victor, Giovanni Gentile, and Isaac Abarbanel. After him are Juan Luis Vives, Martianus Capella, Han Yu, Jacobus Arminius, Nicolai Hartmann, and Alexandre Kojève.

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Among people born in 300, Asanga ranks 16. Before him are Erasmus of Formia, Theodore of Amasea, Vincent of Saragossa, Macarius of Egypt, Antipope Felix II, and Pope Peter I of Alexandria. After him are Expeditus, Narseh, Vātsyāyana, Hormizd II, Domitianus II, and Zeno of Verona. Among people deceased in 301, Asanga ranks 2. Before him is Maurus Servius Honoratus. After him are Sima Lun, Hripsime, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, Julius Obsequens, and Marina Severa.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Asanga ranks 21 out of 217. Before him are Shah Jahan (1592), Bhagat Singh (1907), Arif Alvi (1949), Vasubandhu (400), Benazir Bhutto (1953), and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910). After him are Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Abdus Salam (1926), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Dev Anand (1923), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), and Aga Khan III (1877).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Pakistan

Among philosophers born in Pakistan, Asanga ranks 2. Before him are Chanakya (-375). After him are Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919).

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