Asaṅga
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4th-century philosopher
Buddhist monk
Buddhist philosopher
Indian philosopher
Mahāyāna Buddhist
Yogācāra scholar
Asaṅga was a 4th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and monk renowned as a principal founder and systematizer of the Yogācāra (Mind-Only) school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asaṅga canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11672530 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Asaṅga Context triple: [Yogācāra, foundedBy, Asaṅga]
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A.
Buddhapālita
Buddhapālita was an early Indian Buddhist philosopher and commentator renowned for articulating a subtle, non-assertive interpretation of Madhyamaka thought that strongly influenced later Prāsaṅgika traditions.
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B.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the enlightened understanding or awakening in Buddhism, representing the profound realization of the true nature of reality.
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C.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the charismatic, thrill-seeking surfer and bank robber who serves as the philosophical antagonist to FBI agent Johnny Utah in the film "Point Break."
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D.
Bamakhyapa
Bamakhyapa was a renowned 19th-century Bengali mystic and Tantric saint, celebrated for his intense devotion to the goddess Tara and his unconventional, ecstatic spiritual practices centered around the Tarapith temple.
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E.
Sravasti
Sravasti is an ancient city in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India, historically significant as one of the main centers of the Buddha’s teachings and early Buddhist monastic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Asaṅga Target entity description: Asaṅga was a 4th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and monk renowned as a principal founder and systematizer of the Yogācāra (Mind-Only) school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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A.
Buddhapālita
Buddhapālita was an early Indian Buddhist philosopher and commentator renowned for articulating a subtle, non-assertive interpretation of Madhyamaka thought that strongly influenced later Prāsaṅgika traditions.
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B.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the enlightened understanding or awakening in Buddhism, representing the profound realization of the true nature of reality.
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C.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the charismatic, thrill-seeking surfer and bank robber who serves as the philosophical antagonist to FBI agent Johnny Utah in the film "Point Break."
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D.
Bamakhyapa
Bamakhyapa was a renowned 19th-century Bengali mystic and Tantric saint, celebrated for his intense devotion to the goddess Tara and his unconventional, ecstatic spiritual practices centered around the Tarapith temple.
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E.
Sravasti
Sravasti is an ancient city in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India, historically significant as one of the main centers of the Buddha’s teachings and early Buddhist monastic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
4th-century philosopher
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Buddhist monk ⓘ Buddhist philosopher ⓘ Indian philosopher ⓘ Mahāyāna Buddhist ⓘ Yogācāra scholar ⓘ |
| associatedFigure | Maitreya (Bodhisattva) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gandhāran Buddhism
NERFINISHED
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Sarvāstivāda school (early affiliation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
4th-century Indian people
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Indian Buddhist monks ⓘ Yogācāra philosophers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| doctrine |
bodhisattva path systematization
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three natures (trisvabhāva) ⓘ three turnings of the Dharma wheel ⓘ ālaya-vijñāna (storehouse consciousness) ⓘ |
| era | 4th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
Dharmapāla
NERFINISHED
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East Asian Yogācāra NERFINISHED ⓘ Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism ⓘ Vasubandhu NERFINISHED ⓘ Xuanzang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Mahāyāna sūtras
NERFINISHED
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Maitreya-nātha (traditional attribution) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Mind-Only doctrine
NERFINISHED
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doctrine of storehouse consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) ⓘ founding the Yogācāra school ⓘ systematizing Yogācāra philosophy ⓘ works on Mahāyāna Abhidharma ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| laterAffiliation | Mahāyāna Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorWork |
Abhidharmasamuccaya
NERFINISHED
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Mahāyānasaṃgraha NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahāyānasaṃgraha-bhāṣya (commentary, traditional) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahāyānābhidharma texts NERFINISHED ⓘ Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra (traditional attribution) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Vijñānavāda
NERFINISHED
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Yogācāra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Gandhāra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationTypeWithVasubandhu | elder brother GENERATED ⓘ |
| relative | Vasubandhu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| role |
principal founder of Yogācāra
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systematizer of Mahāyāna Abhidharma ⓘ |
| tradition | Mahāyāna Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
East Asian Buddhism
NERFINISHED
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Indian Mahāyāna tradition ⓘ Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Asaṅga Description of subject: Asaṅga was a 4th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and monk renowned as a principal founder and systematizer of the Yogācāra (Mind-Only) school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.