Āryadeva (active 3rd century) 
འཕགས་པ་ལྷ། ‘phags pa lha

 

 

Biography

  • “Aryadeva.” Rigpa Wiki rigpawiki.com
  • Berzin Archives. “Aryadeva.” Study Buddhism. studybuddhism.com
  • Lang, Karen. 2012. “Āryadeva.” Oxford Bibiographies Online: Buddhism oxfordbibliographies.com
  • Tillemans, Tom. “Āryadeva [full version].” In Edelglass, McClintock, and Harter, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy.  Routledge. academia.edu
  • Tillemans, Tom. 2021. “Āryadeva [short version].” In Goetz and Taliaferro, eds., The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Wiley. academia.edu

Noted Scholars

Karen Lang, Tom Tillemans

 

Works

Four Hundred Verses
Catuḥśataka
bzhi brgya pa
བཞི་བརྒྱ་པ།

full title:
Bodhisattvayogacārya-catuḥśatakaśāstra-kārikā
Byang-chub sems-dpa’i rnal-’byor spyod-pa bzhi-brgya-pa’i bstan-bcos kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་བཞི་བརྒྱ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ

Root Text

  • Āryadeva and Karen Lang. 1986. Āryadeva’s Catuhśataka: On the Bodhisattva’s Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge. Akademisk. JABL (archive.org)
  • Āryadeva and Ruth Sonam, trans. 2008. “The Four Hundred Verses.” In Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way: With Commentary by Gyel-tsap. Snow Lion. bodhiwisdom.org   WorldCat

Commentaries

Berzin, Alexander. “Overview of ‘Four Hundred Verse Treatise’” – Dr. Berzin.” Study Buddhism by Berzon Archives. (studybuddhism.com)

Candrakīrti and Karen C. Lang. 2003. Four Illusions: Candrakīrti’s Advice for Travelers on the Bodhisattva Path. Oxford University Press. JABL (translation of Candrakīrti’s commentary–chapters 1-4)

Dar-ma-rin-chen, Rinchen Sonam, Ruth Sonam, and Āryadeva. 1994. The Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas : Gyeltsap on Āryadeva’s Four Hundred. Snow Lion Publications.

D.J. 2013. [Review of Refuting the Conditioned – The Saṃskṛtārthapratiṣedha of Candrakīrti’s Catuḥśatakaṭīkā. Introduction, Translation, and Summary together with a Critical Edition of the Tibetan Translation, by D. Johnson]. Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies, 55: 243–244. JSTOR

Johnson, Dennis. 2012. Refuting the Conditioned – The Saṃskṛtārthapratiṣedha of Candrakīrti’s Catuḥśatakaṭīkā: Introduction, Translation, and Summary together with a Critical Edition of the Tibetan Translation. University of Vienna. academic.edu (translation of Candrakirti’s commentary on chapter 15 of The Four Hundred Verses)

Lang, Karen. 1986. “Showing the Realization of the Refutation of Holding Extreme Views”: Chapter Fourteen of Candrakīrti’s Bodhisattvayogacārya-catuḥśatakaśāstrakārikā edited from the Sanskrit Fragments and the Tibetan Texts. University of Washington Thesis. archive.org (summary of The Four Hundred Verses)

Red-mdaʼ-ba Gzhon-nu-blo-gros (Rendawa Shönnu Lodrö), Jürgen Stöter-Tillmann, and Tashi Tsering. 1997. Commentary on the “Entry into the Middle” Lamp which Elucidates Reality. Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. JABL 

Tillemans, Tom J. F., Dharmapāla, and Candrakīrti. 1990. Materials for the Study of Āryadeva Dharmapāla and Candrakīrti : The Catuḥśataka of Āryadeva Chapters XII and XII with the Commentaries of Dharmapāla and Candrakīrti. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien. JABL (translation of Candrakīrti and Dharmapāla’s commentary on chapters 12 & 13  of The Four Hundred Verses)


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