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"Is the concept of individual self-awareness started with Dasein?"
Heidegger was merely redefining the ancient Eastern concept of Zen into a Western translation stripped of all ritualized and religious attachments.
So your question could read -is individual self-awareness started with Zen?- Yes.
There will be Germanphobic hair splitting critics who dispute this, and who forget that 95% of Germans were members of the Nazi party OUT OF CONVENIENCE, and not out of zealous passionate devotion.