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དབྱིག་གཉེན། | Glossary of Terms

  • དབྱིག་གཉེན།

  • བ་སུ་བནྡྷུ།
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A great fourth-century scholar and author, half-brother and pupil of Asaṅga and an important author of the Yogācāra tradition.

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  • དབྱིག་གཉེན།
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  • Vasubandhu
  • དབྱིག་གཉེན།
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Definition in this text:

(Fourth century). The younger brother of Āryāsaṅga, he was one of the greatest scholars in Buddhist history, author of the Abhi­dharma­kośa, the most definitive work on the Abhidharma, and later of numerous important works on the Vijñānavāda philosophy.

  • Vasubandhu
  • དབྱིག་གཉེན།
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  • vasubandhu
  • Vasubandhu
  • དབྱིག་གཉེན།
  • dbyig gnyen
  • vasubandhu
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The great fourth century Yogācāra scholar and author (or, as one possible author of this text, perhaps an otherwise unknown later Middle Way master by the same name).

  • Vasubandhu
  • དབྱིག་གཉེན།
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The great scholar and author of fourth or fifth century Buddhist India, born in Gandhāra and said according to Tibetan and Chinese traditions to have been related to Asaṅga, perhaps as his younger brother.

  • Vasubandhu
  • བ་སུ་བནྡྷུ།
  • ba su ban+dhu
  • vasubandhu
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A fourth-century Indian monk who is regarded as one of the greatest scholars in Buddhist history. He authored the Abhidharmakośa, the most definitive work on the Abhidharma, and numerous important works on the Vijñānavāda philosophy.