Wúxìng púsà 無性菩薩 (*Asvabhāva)
Indian Yogācāra scholar of the late fifth and early sixth centuries CE, conventionally dated c. 450–530, named in Chinese sources as Wúxìng (a calque of Sanskrit Asvabhāva, “[Of] No Inherent Existence” / “Essenceless”). Author of one of the two standard Indian commentaries on Asaṅga’s Mahāyāna-saṅgraha, the Mahāyānasaṃgraha-upanibandhana (Tibetan Theg-pa chen-po bsdus-pa’i bshad-sbyar, D 4051), translated into Chinese by 玄奘 in 648–649 as KR6n0065 Shè dà-shèng lùn shì 攝大乘論釋 (T31n1598). The Asvabhāva commentary differs in interpretive register from Vasubandhu’s bhāṣya — it concentrates on points of doctrinal disambiguation and on the epistemological / logical apparatus of the Yogācāra path — and the two together (T1597 KR6n0064 = Vasubandhu, T1598 KR6n0065 = Asvabhāva) constitute the canonical commentarial pair on the Mahāyāna-saṅgraha.
Asvabhāva is also reported by Tibetan tradition as a commentator on the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, and his school of Yogācāra is sometimes characterised as a “logical-epistemological” reading of Asaṅga distinct from Vasubandhu’s more abhidharmic approach. He is named in KR2m0019 Sòng gāosēng zhuàn and the Tibetan biographical sources as a teacher of Dharmapāla; this places him a generation before the late-Indian Yogācāra masters whose work Xuánzàng synthesised in KR6n0016 Chéng wéishí lùn.
Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001218.