Vasubandhu

Indian Buddhist scholar-monk. Along with his brother Asaṅga , one of the main founders of the Indian Yogācāra school , and one of the most influential figures in the entire history of Buddhism. Born in Gandhāra in the fourth century, he was at first an Abhidharmist and wrote the massive Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya. He later converted to Mahāyāna and composed many other voluminous treatises. Most influential in the East Asian Buddhist tradition was probably his Thirty Verses on Consciousness-only, but he also wrote a large number of other works, including: a commentary to the Mahāyāna-saṃgraha, the Dasabhūmikabhāsya, Catuhśataka-śāstra, Mahāyāna śatadharmā-prakāśamukha śāstra, Amitayus sutropadeśa, and his Discourse on the Pure Land

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