Buddhajīva 佛陀什 (also written 佛馱什, fl. early 5th c.) was a Kashmiri vinayācārya of the Mahīśāsaka school. According to the Gāosēng zhuàn 高僧傳 (T50n2059) and Chū sānzàng jìjí 出三藏記集 (T55n2145) j. 3, he came to Jiànkāng 建康 by sea in the early Liú-Sòng period and in 423–424 CE translated the Mahīśāsaka Vinaya brought back from Sri Lanka by Faxian (法顯) — the Wǔfēn lǜ 五分律 (KR6k0001) and its associated prātimokṣa texts (KR6k0002, KR6k0003) — at the Lónggūang-sì 龍光寺 with Khotanese interpreter Zhìshèng 智勝, and the Chinese disciple Zhú Dàoshēng (竺道生). His name Buddha-jīva (“life-of-the-Buddha”) is given in the alternate transliteration Fótuóshí / Fómoshí. Nothing further is known of his life after the translation work.