Āryadeva
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages · author page
the venerable great master Āryadeva · Āryadevapāda
in the texts
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The attributed author of the Caryāmelāpakapradīpa, named in the closing verse and the work colophon.
(The author's closing verse:
// This is the work of the venerable great master Āryadeva.
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The author of the Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa, who speaks in the first person about examining his own mind and whose authorship is confirmed in the colophon.
This is the work of the venerable Āryadeva (Āryadevapāda).
cittaviśuddhi}}), whatever happiness I have gained — by [that, and by] establishing the purification of mind, may people be made happy.
— having paid homage to the Great Passion (kāma / viṣaya (desire / sense-objects, enjoyed as antidote by the yogin), Mahārāga), the Lord Padmanarteśvara (tantric form of Avalokiteśvara, the dedicatee deity), I shall here say a little, drawn from the examination of my own mind (svacittapratyavekṣaṇā).