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'''Vasubandhu''' ({{CJKV|t=世親|p=Shìqīn}}; Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་ {{bo|w=dbyig gnyen}}; [[floruit|fl.]] 4th to 5th century CE) was an influential [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]] and scholar from [[Gandhara]]
Vasubandhu's ''[[Abhidharmakośakārikā]]'' ("Commentary on the Treasury of the Abhidharma") is widely used in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism, as the major source for non-Mahayana Abhidharma philosophy. His philosophical verse works set forth the standard for the Indian Yogacara metaphysics of "appearance only" (''vijñapti-mātra''), which has been described as a form of "[[epistemological idealism]]", [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Lusthaus|first= Dan|year= 2002|title= Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogācāra Philosophy and the Ch'eng Wei-shih lun|location=New York, NY|publisher=Routledge}}</ref> and close to [[Immanuel Kant]]'s [[transcendental idealism]].<ref name=Gold>{{cite book|last=Gold|first=Jonathan C.|chapter="Vasubandhu"|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|year= 2015|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first= Edward N.|url= http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/vasubandhu/}}</ref> Apart from this, he wrote several commentaries, works on logic, argumentation and devotional poetry.
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