Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t4.66

v1.c6.s2.t4.66

*Essentials of Prescriptions by Various Medical Scientists*, if judged by its contents, has something to do with *Ba Zhu* (Дх09888, front and back), and also fragmented pieces collected in *Dunhuang Documents collected by Soviet Union* and *Prescription for Heartache Caused by Ghosts* (Дх09170, front and back). The front of the fragmented pieces of *Essentials of Prescriptions by Various Medical Scientists* is the Study of Jīvaka on *Internal Five Organs* and these pieces have six lines in total. The first line is *Essentials of Prescriptions by Various Medical Scientists Volume One* while the other five describe the situation at the beginning of the creation of the earth and heaven in the genesis mythology of Buddhism when everyone lived with joy and happiness with the blessing of gods and all living creatures immersed themselves in the bliss of five desires with plants and natural things as their food; kings were honest and just and people were not worried about life, senility, illness and death. This is what the very beginning of the world looked like in the genesis mythology of Buddhism, similar with the creation myths in *The Medium Works of Hinayana Sutra (Volume 39)*, *Scripture of the Origin of*