Theology

Vasubandhu

c. 4th to 5th century CE, Gandhara and Ayodhya, India

The great systematizer who mapped experience into momentary factors, then turned within to teach that all we know is consciousness.

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Lessons

The Treasury of Abhidharma

Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa - the summit of Buddhist psychology - dissolves the solid world into a stream of momentary factors ( dharmas ), and dissolves the self along with it, leaving only impersonal events arising by…

Representation-Only

In the Twenty Verses , Vasubandhu argues that the objects we take to be an outer world are representations of consciousness - and answers, one by one, every objection that experience must be caused by things outside the…

The Storehouse and the Three Natures

Vasubandhu's Thirty Verses complete mind-only: a subliminal ‘storehouse consciousness’ carries the seeds of all experience, and the three natures explain how the same world can be at once deluding, dependent…

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