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| | Asanga: bio and encyclopedia article |
 | | Asanga (also called Aryasanga), born around 300 (additional info and facts about 300) C.E., was a great exponent of the Yogacara (One of the main traditions of Mahayana Buddhism; holds that the mind is real but that objects are just ideas or states of consciousness). |
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| | ORIENTALIA Definition of Asanga in Buddhist Dictionary Oriental Encyclopedia |
| | Together with his teacher the Bodhisattva Maitreya, Asanga was the founder of the Yogacara, or Consciousness-Only, School of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | Asanga, Teacher of the Dharma, then prayed, saying, "I now intend to bring all beings to believe fully in the doctrine of the Mahayana. | | | Although all were together in one and the same hall listening to the discourse, it was, nevertheless, only Asanga, Teacher of the Dharma, who had access to the Bodhisattva Maitreya, while the others could merely hear him from afar. |
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| | Famous Indian Buddhist Saint |
| | Asanga was one of the most famous Indian Buddhist saints, and lived in the fourth century. | | | Asanga went up to him and asked him what he was doing. | | | He went to the mountains to do a solitary retreat, concentrating all his meditation practice on the Buddha Maitreya, in the fervent hope that he would be blessed with a vision of this Buddha and receive teachings from him. |
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| | The Abhidharma |
| | Consequently, Asanga decided to meditate on Buddha Maitreya. | | | A disciple of Asanga, Buddhasimha, wrote a commentary on it, the Abhidharma Samuccaya Abhashya. | | | Asanga's perception was now purified, and he experienced the pure dimension of Tushita, the dwelling place of Maitreya. |
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http://www.bibliotheque-dhagpo-kagyu.org/en/doss/abhi5.php
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| | Asanga Basic Teachings of Consciousness Only |
| | Together with his teacher the Bodhisattva Maitreya, Asanga was the founder of the Yogacara, or Consciousness-Only, School of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | Asanga, Teacher of the Dharma, then prayed, saying, "I now intend to bring all beings to believe fully in the doctrine of the Mahayana. | | | Although all were together in one and the same hall listening to the discourse, it was, neverthe-less, only Asanga, Teacher of the Dharma,, who had access to the Bodhisattva Maitreya, while the others could merely hear him from afar. |
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| | The Seattle Times: Local News: Giant sacrifice for a little prince and his family |
| | For Tibetan Buddhists, spiritual and temporal leaders are one and the same, and within the Sakya sect, the teachings of the Buddha are said to be passed down through the bloodline. | | | Asanga's parents say their son has shown a strong propensity toward religion and compassion. | | | Asanga will likely rise shortly after dawn to spend his days studying Buddhist religion, philosophy and prayers, customs and rituals, grammar and scriptures. |
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| | There is a kind of interdependence between the manifestations of the Buddha (in the forms of the Heavenly Buddhas and of deities of the Vajrayana pantheon) and the development of sentient beings through the practice of meditation. | | | This is expressed in the experience of Asanga, who saw the Buddha Maitreya first not at all, then in the form of a diseased dog, and finally in his celestial and transformed aspect. | | | Asanga thought that if people had such patience even in worldly tasks, perhaps he had been too hasty in abandoning his practice, so he returned to the cave and continued with his meditation. |
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Asanga • |
| | However, due to his karmic obstructions, Asanga was still unable to gain realisations and had not a glimpse of the Buddha, Maitreya. | | | The great Bodhisattva, Asanga, meditated in retreat in a cave for many, many years while aspiring to gain a vision of Maitreya Buddha. | | | Inspired, Asanga returned to his cave and enthusiastically practised meditation for a further three years. |
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| | Tibet Digital Library: Culture: Folktales: How Asanga Came to See the Future Buddha |
| | Asanga was patient in his endeavors, but even he, after many years of earnest meditation, was beginning to be frustrated by his attempts to attain the wisdom he desired. | | | Champa then took Asanga to the Tushita heaven, and there he was able to receive the teaching and gain the insight that had eluded him for so many years. | | | On returning to his cave, Asanga, his senses sharpened by deep meditation, heard the soft drip of water over stone. |
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http://www.crosby-lundin.com/tibet/culture/folktales/asanga.html
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| | Theosophy Library Online - Great Teacher Series - ASANGA |
| | Asanga the Light-Giver is revered as the perfected practitioner of meditation and an exemplar of selfless service to humanity. | | | For Asanga, this explains the meaning of Buddha when he taught that he came for the redemption of all beings although he knew that there are no beings to be redeemed. | | | Asanga, also known as Arya Asanga or Aryasanga, has been confused with another teacher, Aryasangha, a direct disciple of Buddha, who is the true founder of the first and ever secret Yogacharya school. |
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| | A Tibetan Contribution to the Doctrine of Mind-Only |
| | Asanga does indeed propound that emptiness is the ultimate truth, for when he speaks about the path of seeing, for instance, he says not that a meditator sees just mind but that a meditator sees emptiness. | | | This would be to overload idealism with notions that it necessarily entails the assertion of a permanent pure consciousness as the ultimate truth and then to propose that Asanga in these texts does not propound idealism since it is clear that for him emptiness is the ultimate truth. | | | Not satisfied with Asanga’s statements indicating merely that these two go together, they work hard at showing how the one requires the other, why realization of the emptiness of imputation in the manner of entity and attribute leads to realization of the absence of external objects. |
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| | Young American Prepares for Life as a Lama in a Monastery |
| | Asanga Sakya has been training to be a Tibetan Buddhist leader all his life. | | | Still, the Sakyas explain that when they leave Asanga in Nepal next month, they will leave confident -- as parents and Buddhists -- that they are doing the best they can for their precious son. | | | Asanga Sakya, 5, from Seattle is a crown prince in the Sakya order of Tibetan buddhists Sketch by VOA's Andrew Baroch |
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http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2005-04-26-voa61.cfm
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| | The Buddhist Channel News - Asia In Nepal, little prince settles in |
| | Asanga Sakya, 6, who until this spring lived with his parents in Shoreline, is a crown prince of the Sakya order of Tibetan Buddhism. | | | They were proud to hear that four months after Asanga arrived at the monastery, he recited from memory almost two hours of Tibetan prayers, a difficult task for someone his age. | | | He may one day become leader of the 100,000 Sakya Buddhists worldwide. |
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| | Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal - Dharma Shop |
| | For that reason, the elder son, Asanga, practiced meditation diligently trying to meet Maitreya so that he would be able to spread these very profound teachings of the Mahayana. | | | Eventually Asanga was able to meet Maitreya and returned to the central country and spread the teachings there. | | | In fact, Asanga went to the heaven of Tushita and received this text from Maitreya. |
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| | Traditional Yoga Studies Interactive Content - The Life of Asanga |
| | She was greatly dismayed at Buddhism losing ground, and since she as a woman could not defend the Buddha’s teachings in public debates, she vowed to give birth to a son who could accomplish this. | | | After three more years of apparently unsuccessful meditation practice, Asanga sadly left the cave, thinking he had failed miserably and was lacking in the necessary good karma to be graced with a vision of his meditation deity. | | | At one point, she made it clear to him that he had not been born to carry on brahmanical family duties but to become a Buddhist monk, so that he could strengthen the Buddha’s Dharma, which was in danger of becoming lost. |
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| | Step by Step |
| | So, Asanga, the Buddhist philosopher, went to the mountain to meditate and try to reach Manjusri, the bodhisattva of wisdom. | | | "Where have you been?" Asanga said "Why have you not come during all these years of my meditation?" Manjusri replied,"I've been here all the time. | | | The bodhisattvas become teachers, mystical guides, devoting themselves to the salvation of others who seek nirvana. |
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| | Rahula - Alayavijnana - Store Consciousness |
| | However, for Asanga, citta, manas and vijnana are three different and distinct aspects of the vyjnanaskandha. | | | n the Yogacara (Vijnanavada) School of Buddhism, alayavijnana is one of the most important doctrines developed by Asanga (fourth century A.C.). | | | It is generally believed that alayavijnana is purely a Mahayana doctrine and that nothing about it is found in Hinayana. |
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| | The Buddhist philosophical school of Yogacara established in the frames of Mahayanistic Buddhism is one of the most ... |
| | This position of Asanga supplied the reality of only psychical and was quite in accordance with the teaching of such important doctrinal text as "Lankavatara sutra". | | | This work was included by the Tibetans to the texts of "Maytreya – Asanga" (but the Chinese tradition attributed it to a certain Saramati). | | | It confirms the existence not only the "store consciousness" of Alaya-vijnana which is the source of all empirical forms of consciousness and its contents as well but also supports the idea of the One and Only absolute Mind which is the same as the Dharma Body (Dharmakaya) of the Buddha itself. |
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| | Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra -- by Arya Maitreya, written down by Arya Asanga, commentary by Jamgon ... |
| | The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the "Five Treatises" said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand this fround of enlightenment and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. | | | All sentient beings, without exception, have buddha nature, the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. | | | This seminal text details with great clarity the view which forms the basis for Vajrayana, and especially Mahamudra, practice. |
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| | Alibris: Asanga |
| | Asanga, author of the Abhidharmasamuccaya, is founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | Verse treatise, with Sanskrit and English commentary on the fundamentals of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | This is a fully annotated, critical English translation of Maitreyanathas "Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara)," as transmitted to the fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar-adept ªrya Asanga, along with its commentary (bhasya) by Asangas brother Vasubandhu. |
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| | Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The appellation of the school originated with the title of an important fourth- or fifth-century CE text of the school, the Yogacarabhumi-sastra. | | | The Chinese Faxiang School, derived from the Indian Yogacara (yoga practice) School, is based upon the writings of two brothers, Asanga and Vasubandhu, who explicated a course of practice wherein hindrances are removed according to a sequence of stages, from which it gets its name. | | | Faxiang is the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit term dharmalaksana (characteristic of dharma), referring to the school's basal emphasis on the unique characteristics of the dharmas that make up the world, which appears in human ideation. |
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| | Asanga |
| | Asanga, učitel dharmy se pak takto modlil: "Chci přivést všechny bytosti k nauce mahájány. | | | Když se Asanga vrátil na zemi použil tato poučení a zakrátko dosáhl osvícení. | | | Asanga se stal mnichem školy sarvastiváda, ale později prošel praxí meditace a dosáhl stavu zbavení tužeb. |
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| | The New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, the Quakers and Ulverston. |
| | These were the wisdom lineage of Nagarjuna and the method lineage of Asanga. | | | passed from Buddha Shakyamuni to Maitreya, from Maitreya to Asanga and then to Vasubandhu and further Indian masters. | | | The great Indian teacher Atisha gathered these two lineages together and brought them to Tibet, where Buddhism, originally introduced by Padmasambhava, had been seriously weakened by persecution. |
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| | Buddhist Studies: Maitreya (Futrue Buddha) |
| | Asanga lived in India, in Pataliputra (present-day Patna in the state of Bihar), with his brother in the fourth century. | | | Tradition relates that Maitreya descended from the Tusita heaven at the request of Asanga and his brother to teach them the content of the five sutras. | | | They are represented in the form of monks, and are given the title of Bodhisattva. |
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> 3 Questions To Asanga |
| | I have searched everywhere I can think of to find out what these questions were, but have not been able to locate them and I do not have access to the Tibetan of Asanga’s biography. | | | paricitta-abhijna) but the king was not satisfied until Asanga answered correctly three profound and subtle questions regarding the Prajnaparamita. | | | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> 3 Questions To Asanga |
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| | Asanga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Born in Gandhara in north India as a Brahmin's son, he was perhaps originally a member of the Mahīśāsaka or the Mūlasarvāstivāda school but later converted to Mahāyāna; after many years of intense meditation, during which time some traditions say that he often visited Tushita Heaven to receive teachings from Maitreya-nātha. | | | Asanga (also called Aryasanga), born around 300 C.E., was a great exponent of the Yogacara. |
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| | Asanga (born around 300 C.E.) was the founder of the Yogacara[?], or consciousness-only, school of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | It uses material from the wikipedia article Asanga. |
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| | Asanga |
| | White Plum Asanga An organization of Zen teachers in the lineage of Hakuyu Taizen Maezumi. | | | Born in Gandhara in north India as a Brahmin 's son, he first followed the Abhidharma system but was later converted to Mahayana. | | | Asanga (born around 300 C.E.) was a great exponent of the Yogacara. |
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| | Talk:Asanga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is perhaps not essential as "arya" is a title of respect given to many great Buddhist scholar-monks.--Stephen Hodge 02:16, 3 May 2005 (UTC) | | | Somebody has mentioned that Asanga is also known as Arya-asanga. |
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| | Asanga, founder of the Yogacara of Mahayana Buddhism. |
| | Asanga, founder of the Yogacara of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | German map of Auckland Even in 1840 Port Nicholson (now called Wellington) probably seemed the obvious choice for an administrative capital. | | | Though born in Melbourne, media mogul Rupert Murdoch ran his first newspaper in Adelaide. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Yogacara (Buddhism) - Encyclopedia |
| | The founders of this school in India were Maitreya (270–350), his disciple Asanga (c.375–430), and Asanga's younger half-brother Vasubandhu (c.400–480), who was also the greatest systematizer of the Abhidharma type of Buddhist philosophy. | | | The school held that consciousness (vijnana) is real, but its objects are constructions and unreal. |
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| | Yogacara : philosophie et poésie en citations |
| | Mahayanasutralamkara d' Asanga, XIV, st. 44-46, cité et traduit par Lilian Silburn, Aux sources du Bouddhisme, Fayard, p.237 | | | Mahayanasutralamkara d' Asanga, XIV, st. 15 à 29, cité et traduit par Lilian Silburn, Aux sources du Bouddhisme, Fayard, p.236 | | | Mahayanasutralamkara d' Asanga, XIV, Résumé des st. 30-35, cité et traduit par Lilian Silburn, Aux sources du Bouddhisme, Fayard, p.236 |
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| | Asanga, Kevin Volans |
| | The 1985 She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket is already a bit of a classic. | | | The brief and violent Asanga (1997), however, and the expansive and wonderfully intricate Akrodha (1998) are not so well known, but clearly should be. |
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| | Asanga's Teaching of Great Compassion [Buddha's World] |
| | To conceive the spirit of enlightenment, you first must develop equanimity toward all beings, and then contemplate the sevenfold cause-and-effect spiritual instruction given by Maitreya to Asanga. | | | First imagine before you a being who has neither helped you nor harmed you. |
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| | A História do Monge Asanga |
| | Asanga, um grande praticante buddhista indiano, retirou-se em uma caverna para meditar dia e noite no Buddha Maitreya. | | | Asanga pensou, "Eis aqui alguém que, para ter apenas um pouco de Sol sobre seu telhado, se dispõe a ficar em pé interminavelmente, removendo um rochedo com uma pena. | | | "Faz anos e anos que estou rezando a você", exclamou Asanga, "e esta é a primeira vez que você aparece!" |
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| | Dictionary.com/Asanga |
| | n : Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century) [syn: Asanga] | | | Perform a new search, or try your search for | | | HighBeam Research - 32 million documents from leading publications |
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| | Religion W4620 Class Notes: Idealism (Asanga and Vasubandhu) |
| | Class notes for Religion W4620 (Nonduality in Indian and Tibetan Thought), Fall 2002. | | | Religion W4620 Class Notes: Idealism (Asanga and Vasubandhu) | | | Last updated: Fri Aug 30 19:55:01 EDT 2002 by Gary Tubb, email gat4@columbia.edu |
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| | to where Asanga had, unknowingly, spat on his robe. | | | Like Asanga, any Bodhisattva with great compassion is | | | himself for the great goal of enlightenment, Asanga |
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| | Politics of Wednesday, 18 August 2004 |
| | Mr Asanga, who is also the Assembly Member for the Kulbia Electoral Area, noted that, the Bolgatanga seat was strategic and warned that nothing negative should be done to whittle the fortunes of the Party, citing backbiting, bickering and differences as some of the negative things that should be discarded. | | | Speaking at a meeting in Bolgatanga to plan strategies to rally support for the Party, Mr Asanga praised his supporters for their tireless efforts in canvassing for him prior to the primaries, accepting the shocking results and remaining calm and tolerant in spite of provocations. | | | He further reminded them of HIV/AIDS and urged them to extend the education on the pandemic in their campaigns. |
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| | Maezumi Roshi founded the White Plum Asanga, named after his father Baian Hakujun Daiosho. | | | Shortly before his death, Maezumi Roshi gave Inka to his senior disciple Tetsugen Glassman, Roshi, who in turn transmitted Inka to Genpo Merzel, Roshi, the present President of the White Plum Asanga. | | | At the age of 64 Maezumi Roshi died suddenly in Tokyo, Japan in the early morning hours of Monday, May 15 (Japanese time), 1995. |
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| | Centre for Policy Alternatives |
| | A critical case review on the recent Supreme Court determination on the freedom of religion and conscience by Asanga Welikala is available here. | | | This paper aims to look at the present federal debate focusing on the available alternatives for a federal Sri Lanka. | | | On 2nd and 3rd July 2002, a team from INFORM (Sunila Abeysekera and Udaya Kalupathirana) and the Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sunanda Deshapriya and Asanga Welikala) visited Valaichchenai and Batticaloa in the wake of reports of clashes between members of the Muslim and Tamil communities in the Ottamavadi-Valaichchenai area. |
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| | Bate Besong: IN APPRECIATION: Siga Asanga, My Friend |
| | Those who propelled professor Zacharias Siga Asanga into premature death, should lock themselves up in their prison cells inside their hives, for they are the cougars of tribal power, who twisted the clear teaching of a populist, revolutionary alter-native party into knots of ethnic deceit. | | | As one who single-handedly wrote the SDF Manifesto, Asanga believed that reality is a dynamic process produced by men and can be changed by men. | | | This, then, is the blueprint on which Asanga’s concept of the SDF inspired Cameroonian revolution is moulded. |
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| | Still Mind Zendo |
| | Still Mind Zendo in New York City, formed in 1994, is in the Soto-Rinzai lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga. | | | Understanding how fractured and out of control our lives can be at times, we offer a solid structure and the support of caring and like-minded people to help us re-orient ourselves to the reality of our “original face” and so take charge of our lives. |
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