“Whatever we are aware of, think about, experience, or conceptualize, occurs to us nowhere else than within consciousness.”
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Vasubandhu
Vasubandhu was an influential Indian Buddhist monk and scholar. He was a philosopher who wrote commentary on the Abhidharma, from the perspectives of the Sarvastivada and Sautrāntika schools. After his conversion to Mahayana Buddhism, along with his half-brother, Asanga, he was also one of the main founders of the Yogacara school.
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culture · 4th/5th century Buddhist monk · philosopher · writer · Buddhist monk · commentator · author · also Vasubandhu
Born 0300 · Died 0399 · Q316343
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“Karma is collective and consciousness is intersubjective.”
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“All factors of experience (dharmas) can be catalogued and analyzed.”
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“Buddhism is a method for purifying the stream of consciousness from 'contaminations' and 'defilements.'”
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“Each individual has eight types of consciousness, but Enlightenment (or Awakening) requires overturning their basis, such that consciousness (vijñaana) is 'turned' into unmediated cognition (jñaana).”
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JSTOR Daily: Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy
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Died 0399.
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Born 0300.
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