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Who founded yogacara?

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The founders of this school in India were Maitreya (270-350), his disciple Asanga (c.375-430), and Asanga's younger half-brother Vasubandhu (c.400-480), who was also the greatest systematizer of the Abhidharma type of Buddhist philosophy.

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