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'''Aryadeva''' (Skt. ''Āryadeva''; Tib. འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་, ''Pakpa Lha''; [[Wyl.]] ''‘phags pa lha'') (second/third century) — one of the six great commentators (the ‘[[Six Ornaments]]’) on the [[Buddha]]'s teachings. He was a disciple of [[Nagarjuna]] and devoted his life to continuing his master’s work, consolidating the [[Madhyamika]] tradition. He is also counted among the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]].
'''Aryadeva''' (Skt. ''Āryadeva''; Tib. [[འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་]], ''Pakpa Lha''; [[Wyl.]] ''‘phags pa lha'') (second/third century) — one of the six great commentators (the ‘[[Six Ornaments]]’) on the [[Buddha]]'s teachings. He was a disciple of [[Nagarjuna]] and devoted his life to continuing his master’s work, consolidating the [[Madhyamika]] tradition. He is also counted among the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]].


==Writings==
==Writings==

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Aryadeva

Aryadeva (Skt. Āryadeva; Tib. འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་, Pakpa Lha; Wyl. ‘phags pa lha) (second/third century) — one of the six great commentators (the ‘Six Ornaments’) on the Buddha's teachings. He was a disciple of Nagarjuna and devoted his life to continuing his master’s work, consolidating the Madhyamika tradition. He is also counted among the eighty-four mahasiddhas.

Writings

  • Four Hundred Verses
  • Lamp that Integrates the Practices (Skt. Caryāmelāpaka-pradīpa; Tib. སྤྱོད་པ་བསྡུས་པའི་སྒྲོན་མ་, Wyl. spyod pa bsdus pa'i sgron ma), a treatise on the Guhyasamaja Tantra.
སྤྱོད་པ་བསྡུས་པའི་སྒྲོན་མ་, spyod pa bsdus pa'i sgron ma
  • Shatashastra, which only remains in its Chinese translation by Kumārajīva.

Further Reading

  • David Seyfort Ruegg, The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981
  • Lobsang N. Tsonawa, Indian Buddhist Pandits from The Jewel Garland of Buddhist History, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1985.
  • Christian Wedemeyer, Vajrayāna & Its Doubles: A Critical Historiography, Exposition, and Translation of the Tantric Works of Āryadeva, PhD dissertation, Columbia University (New York 1999).

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