Vasubandhu

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• SISelf as Illusion

  9 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  8 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  8 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• AsangaTHRESHOLD

  Yogācāra — mind-only; consciousness constructs the world it perceives.

• Jay GarfieldTHRESHOLD

  Engaging Buddhism — analytic philosophy through Madhyamaka eyes.

• TsongkhapaTHRESHOLD

  Synthesis of sutra and tantra. Emptiness combined with rigorous logic. Lamrim — the graduated path.

• KumarajilaTHRESHOLD

  Translator of the Lotus and Diamond sutras — Chinese Buddhism's spine.

• DharmakirtiTHRESHOLD

  Buddhist logic and epistemology — perception and inference rebuilt.

• DignagaTHRESHOLD

  Pramanasamuccaya — the founder of Buddhist epistemology.

Concepts where Vasubandhu sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Buddhism (philosophical)
  A 2,500-year tradition built around three claims about the self, suffering, and attention.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Vasubandhu's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.