Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
asanga is a noun meaning "Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century)". It carries one recorded sense.
Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for asanga come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.