Vasubandhu

Vasubandhu was a fourth-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and a founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism, which taught that all experience is a product of mind (consciousness-only). His Abhidharmakosa is one of the most important encyclopaedic texts of early Buddhist philosophy.

Vasubandhu's Vimsatika and Trimsika set out the Yogacara (consciousness-only) position: that objects of experience are not external things but representations arising from the stream of consciousness. His work bridges Abhidharma scholasticism and Mahayana philosophy, and was enormously influential in Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism.