提婆羅菩薩

Tí-pó-luó púsà 提婆羅菩薩 (lifedates unknown), Indian Buddhist kāvya and Mādhyamaka-aligned author named in the colophon of KR6m0022 Dà-zhàngfū lùn 大丈夫論 (T1577). The Sanskrit reconstruction of the name is uncertain: Devala, Devarāja, or Pāradeva have all been proposed. The author is distinct from the better-known 提婆菩薩 Tí-pó (Āryadeva); the additional syllable 羅 is consistent across all witnesses and likely transcribes Skt. -la / -rāja / -pāra.

The Dà-zhàngfū lùn is a Mahāyāna doctrinal-poetic work in two fascicles on the bodhisattva-mahāsattva (“great being / great man”) ideal, organised around the perfection of giving (dāna-pāramitā) and structured as a sustained kāvya-style exposition of the figure of the bodhisattva-as-great-man. The Indic original is no longer preserved; the Tibetan tradition does not have a parallel work of this title. The author’s lifedates and biographical context cannot be securely reconstructed, but the work’s polished Indic literary style suggests a 4th–5th-century date; it was translated into Chinese in the early fifth century by 道泰 Dào-tài of the Northern Liáng 北涼 (397–439).

Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6m0022 Dà-zhàngfū lùn 大丈夫論 (T1577).