Buddhajīva ［仏陀什］ (n.d.) (;  Buddajū): A monk of the Mahīshāsaka school in Kashmir, ancient India, during the fifth century. He became a disciple of a monk of the Mahīshāsaka school and studied that school’s vinaya, or monastic rules of discipline. He went to China in 423 and translated The Fivefold Rules of Discipline, the vinaya text of the Mahīshāsaka school, at Lung-kuang-ssu temple in Chien-k’ang along with Tao-sheng and Hui-yen, disciples of Kumārajīva. The Fivefold Rules of Discipline is a translation of the Sanskrit text that Fa-hsien, the noted Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, brought from Sri Lanka to China in the early fifth century.