Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.60

v1.c6.s2.t3.60

Further, in the 9th century CE, Nagarjuna’s name appears in a poem entitled Mu-bing目病 (eye disease) of Bo Juyi白居易 (772 - 846 CE), the famous poet of the Tang dynasty (CE 618-907). It was about ophthalmology. Bo Juyi had a serious eye-disease in his old age. He subsequently refers to his problem in many poems referring to “Nagarjuna’s classics” and “a drug for clear eyesight”.