Famous Indian philosopher and writer (c. 420–500). With his brother Asanga (q.v.) founded the Yogācāra School (q.v.) of Mahāyāna Bsm. His early work, the Abhidharma-kosa, is one of the fullest expositions of Abhidhamma...

VASUBANDHU (fifth or fourth century CE) was an eminent Indian Buddhist teacher. Said to be a younger brother of the great Māhāyana teacher Asaṅga, Vasubandhu was first ordained in the Hīnayāna Sarvāstivada...

Vasubandhu(Fl. Fourth or Fifth Century Ce) Vasubandhu was an Indian Buddhist philosopher who made significant contributions to the clarification and development of the Indian Buddhist schools of philosophy traditionally classified as the...

Vasubandhu (Sanskrit. Chinese 世親. Korean 세친, fl. 4th c.) was an Indian Buddhist scholar-monk, and along with his half-brother Asanga, one of the main founders of the Indian Yogācāra school. Vasubandhu is one of the most influential figures in...

This book is based, with only slight changes, on a dissertation completed at the University of Hamburg under the direction of Lambert Schmithausen in 1992. It contains a study of a commentary (vyakhya) attributed to Vasubandhu on a Buddhist sutra called Pratityasamutpadadivibhanganirdesa (The...

Vasubandhu, an advocate of the idealist Yogacara school of Buddhism, argues that the non-existence of external objects can be inferred from the appearance of nonexistent things in perceptual illusion. The idealist view and the argument from illusion are criticized by Vatsyayana and Uddyotakara,...