‘Buddhacharitam’, an epic in the tradition of classical Sanskrit language and literature composed by the great Buddhist scholar Ashvaghosh is highly respected in Asian Buddhism. This epic describes the Life, Acts and Sermons of Lord Buddha in poetic way with a musical softness. According to I-tsing, the Chinese Buddhist monk, who travelled India in the seventh century, had found the daily recital of this Sanskrit-epic in Indian Buddhist temples. The author Ashvaghosh also had been respected as Bodhisattva i.e. an incarnation of Lord Buddha and the Sermons composed in this epic had been regarded as canonical texts in the Chinese tradition.
