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वसुबन्धु Vasubandhu

Abhidharma, Yogacara · The celebrated Buddhist scholar — author of the Abhidharmakośa, co-founder of the Yogācāra school

Tier 2 Vasubandhu
Vasubandhu — Abhidharma, Yogacara
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The Authentic Name

Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison

Original Script

वसुबन्धु

The name in its original Buddhist form. Vasubandhu (वसुबन्धु) is attested in the source tradition — “The celebrated Buddhist scholar — author of the Abhidharmakośa, co-founder of the Yogācāra school”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

vasubandhu

The plain vasubandhu form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.

Unicode Restoration

Vasubandhu

The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Vasubandhu. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.

Punycode Encoding
Vasubandhu.com → vasubandhu.com

The non-ASCII characters in Vasubandhu are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Vasubandhu.

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Original Script & Provenance

How Vasubandhu travels from ancient script to the modern URL

वसुबन्धु
Devanagari
Vasubandhu
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Original Script
वसुबन्धु
Indigenous writing
Transliteration
Vasubandhu
Scholarly reading
Unicode Restoration
Vasubandhu
Registrable form
Punycode
vasubandhu.com
DNS encoding
ASCII Fallback
vasubandhu
Flattened spelling

From original to transliteration

  1. Sanskrit Vasubandhu is written in Devanagari as वसुबन्धु
  2. IAST transliteration maps each Devanagari vowel and consonant to a Latin equivalent
  3. Macrons mark long vowels (ā, ī, ū); dots beneath consonants mark retroflex articulation (ṭ, ḍ, ṇ, ṣ)
Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryTier 2
Macdonell, Sanskrit Grammar for StudentsTier 2
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Name Variations

Owned, ideal, and ASCII forms of Vasubandhu

Canonical Restoration

Vasubandhu

Restores वसुबन्धु. The full Unicode restoration. vasubandhu.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.

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Pronunciation

How Vasubandhu was spoken

/vasubandhu/ Restored scholarly form
vasubandhu The canonical restored form Vasubandhu.
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Vasubandhu

Abhidharma

Vasubandhu is abhidharma, yogacara. The name means "The celebrated Buddhist scholar — author of the Abhidharmakośa, co-founder of the Yogācāra school" and belongs to the buddhist tradition.

Sacred Name

The restoration Vasubandhu returns the figure to scholarly recognition.

Abhidharma

Central domain: abhidharma, yogacara.

Living Tradition

Honored in buddhist myth, cult, and cultural memory.

Unicode Restoration

Preserved as a flagship temple despite the unregistrable plain-ASCII form.

Sacred Symbols

Name The restored form Vasubandhu, carrying scholarly and cultural weight.
Domain Abhidharma, Yogacara
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Mythology

Stories of Vasubandhu

The stories of Vasubandhu place abhidharma, yogacara at the center of a living mythological world.

Myth

Origins

Vasubandhu appears in buddhist tradition as abhidharma, yogacara. The name's meaning, "The celebrated Buddhist scholar — author of the Abhidharmakośa, co-founder of the Yogācāra school", shapes the narratives told about this figure.

Cult

Worship and Memory

Devotees and later tradition-keepers preserved Vasubandhu in ritual, text, and iconography, ensuring the name survived into the modern scholarly record.

Go Deeper

Extended Lore

The lore you have read is the surface — the living myth. Beneath it lies the scholarship: etymology, reconstructed pronunciation, Unicode character breakdown, and the cultural legacy of Vasubandhu.

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