Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.83

v1.c6.s2.t3.83

Buddhasena was the master of Sarvastivada and inheritor of Buddha *dharma* later. He converted the people in Kasmira and was the leader of the third training. He once studied Buddha *dharma* with Bhadrabahu and his disciples then spread it to Central China. According to the *Records of Buddhist Esoteric Treatment Scriptures, Volume nine of Record Set of Tripitaka* written by Sengyou, Buddhasena was very talented. He recited a mass of *gatha*, was proficient in Buddha *dharma* and researched Buddhist and non-Buddhist classics deeply so that he was then called “the disciple of the most excellent master”. Buddhabhadra once learned from Buddhasena and translated two volumes of *Dharmatrata Scriptures* after coming to China. The king of Hexi areas of Northern Liang learned Buddha dharma from Buddhasena in Qumo Emperor Temple of Khotan with his brother, Juqu Anyang marquis Juqu Jingsheng who translated the Buddhist scriptures he recited namely *Buddhist Esoteric Treatment Scriptures* (also named as *Esoteric Treatment Methods of Buddhist Diseases*). *Esoteric Treatment Methods of Buddhist diseases* includes two volumes and involves “72 treatment methods of Aranya heart disease”, “treatment method of choke”, “treatment method of walker’s corruption and obscenity”, “treatment method of sore-prone disease”, “treatment method of violation of commandment”, “treatment method of indulgence in music”, “treatment method of enjoyment in extolling Buddhist verses”, “treatment method of diseases caused by flood”, “treatment method of headache, ophthalmodynia and epicophosis caused by internal heat”, “treatment method of insane disease due to fear of inauspicious things predicted during *samadhi*”, “treatment method of gale” and “treatment method of various uneasy diseases of tyros caused by ghosts and goblins” mainly to adjust and treat different unwell and chaotic phenomena during the process of studying Buddha *dharma*. Recently, some scholars think that this scripture was made in Central China which have not been confirmed.