A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.270

v2.c19.s6.t4.270

The Tibetans attribute the Yogācāra-Bhūmi-Śāstra to Asaṅga. Hsüan-Tsang, too, who took Asaṅga's work to China, appears to have regarded it as a work of this master. At all events the name of Asaṅga² as the teacher of the Yogācāra-Vijñānavāda has become more famous than that of his teacher Maitreyanātha. It is true that his works have only come down in Chinese translations: Mahāyāna-Samparigraha, translated by Paramārtha (563 A.D.),³ Prakaraṇa-Āryavācā, Mahāyānābhidharma-Saṃgīti-Śāstra, translated by Hsüan-Tsang (625 A.D.),⁴ and a commentary on the Vajracchedikā, translated by Dharmagupta (590-616 A.D.).⁵