On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c14.45

v1.c14.45

The pilgrim, as we learn from the Life, remained at Kanyākubja three months, being lodged in the Bhadravihāra. Here he studied with the learned Buddhist monk Pi-li-ye-se-na (Viryasena) the vibhāshā (or expository) treatise by Fo-shih (佛使), "Buddha's Servant" or Buddhadāsa, called the Chou (冑)- or "Varma-vibhāshā." Julien, who apparently had a different text here, represents the pilgrim as reading the vibhāshā of Buddhadāsa "et le mémoire du maitre ching-tcheou (Ārya-varma) sur le Pi-po-cha (le vibhāchā)". A Buddhadāsa will be found mentioned in Yuan-chuang's account of "Hayamukha" as the author of a mahā-vibhāshā-śāstra. As this work was a book of the Sarvāstivādin school of the Hinayāna its author cannot have been the Buddhadāsa who was a contemporary of Vasubandhu and a disciple of his brother Asanga.