Shèngtiān púsà 聖天菩薩 (*Āryadeva, conventionally c. 175–250 CE), the Xuánzàng-school Chinese rendering of the name of the principal disciple of 龍樹菩薩 Nāgārjuna and the second Indian patriarch of Mādhyamaka. The name 聖天 (“Holy Deva”) is a calque of Ārya-deva “Noble God”; in Kumārajīva-school translations the same Indic name is rendered phonetically as 提婆 (see 提婆菩薩 for the Kumārajīva-school name and biographical entry).

He is the author of the Catuḥśataka (the “Four Hundred Verses”), preserved in Chinese under his Xuánzàng-school name in KR6m0014 Guǎng-bǎi lùn běn 廣百論本 (T1570, the verses alone) and KR6m0015 Dàshèng guǎng-bǎi lùn shì-lùn 大乘廣百論釋論 (T1571, the verses with Dharmapāla’s commentary on the latter half). Per the Xuánzàng yú-jià-shī dì-lùn / xuánzàng zhuàn tradition, 聖天 was a Sinhalese-born Mādhyamaka master, principal disciple of Nāgārjuna at the Sātavāhana court in southern India, and the figure who polemicised most aggressively against tīrthika opponents.

The catalog of Kanripo treats 提婆菩薩 (Kumārajīva-school name) and 聖天菩薩 (Xuánzàng-school name) as separate entries; they refer to the same Indic master.

Works in the Kanripo corpus (under this name): KR6m0014 Guǎngbǎi lùn běn 廣百論本 (T1570) and KR6m0015 Dàshèng guǎngbǎi lùn shìlùn 大乘廣百論釋論 (T1571).