A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s3.22

v1.c26.s3.22

All this negative evidence is not counterbalanced by a passage, found in the travel report, 290 declaring that, if a disease be not cured by abstaining from food for seven days, one should then seek help from Avalokiteśvara. Paying homage to Āryāvalokita and other figures from the Buddhist pantheon is recommended to patients suffering from fever in the Samgraha (Ci.2.144), but this does not make it certain, as sometimes assumed, 291 that I-ching knew the work, because the veneration of Avalokiteśvara is such a widespread phenomenon in Mahāyāna Buddhism.