Asaṅga

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNameTib	ཐོགས་མེད་
MainNameWylie	thogs med
MainNameSkt	Asaṅga
AltNamesTib	སློབ་དཔོན་ཐོགས་མེད་
AltNamesWylie	slob dpon thogs med
AltNamesOther	Āryāsaṅga
YearBirth	4th Century
DatesNotes	The dates for this master are uncertain, though it is generally assumed that he lived in the 4th or 5th centuries.
ReligiousAffiliation	Yogācāra; Cittamātra; Vijñānavāda
PersonalAffiliation	Vasubandhu
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6117
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Traditionally counted among the Seventeen Great Paṇḍitas of Nālandā, Asaṅga was an illustrious Indian scholar who, along with his brother Vasubhandu, is credited with the founding of the Yogācāra school and the introduction of their associated theories of mind-only (cittamātra), the storehouse consciousness (ālayavijñāna), and the three natures (trisvabhāva) into the milieu of Indian Buddhist philosophical discourse. He is most famously eulogized in the Tibetan tradition for his association with the Five Treatises of Maitreya (byams chos sde lnga), which he is reported to have received directly from the Bodhisattva Maitreya. In terms of the Uttaratantra, the Tibetan tradition, which alone divides the text into two distinct works, asserts that Asaṅga was the author of the prose commentary (vyākhyā) of this work, while Maitreya, himself, is the author of the actual verses of the treatise (śāstra).
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Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

According to the Yogācāra school, all phenomena can be divided into three natures or characteristics: the imaginary nature (parikalpitasvabhāva), the dependent nature (paratantrasvabhāva), and the perfect or absolute nature (pariniṣpannasvabhāva).

According to the Yogācāra school, all phenomena can be divided into three natures or characteristics: the imaginary nature (parikalpitasvabhāva), the dependent nature (paratantrasvabhāva), and the perfect or absolute nature (pariniṣpannasvabhāva).

This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita.

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.