Típó púsà 提波菩薩 — also written 提婆菩薩 — is the Sòng-translation colophon’s spelling for the Indian Mādhyamika master Āryadeva (聖天), conventionally placed c. 170–270 CE, the principal disciple of 龍樹菩薩 (Nāgārjuna). The variant orthography 提波 (instead of the more usual 提婆) appears in the Northern Wèi 後魏 菩提流支 (Bodhiruci) translations of the two short Laṅkāvatāra-derived treatises KR6o0043 and KR6o0044; both works refute the four non-Buddhist theses (外道四宗) and the twenty non-Buddhist views on nirvāṇa (外道小乘涅槃論). The variant 提波 reflects an earlier Wèi transcription convention; the canonical orthography 提婆菩薩 is used elsewhere (see 提婆菩薩 for the standard person note). The two works survive only in the Chinese; no Sanskrit or Tibetan parallels are extant, and the attribution to Āryadeva is conventional rather than externally verified — modern scholarship (Lamotte, Lindtner) has questioned whether they are truly Āryadeva’s or rather later compilations from his school.
For the standard biographical material on Āryadeva, see 提婆菩薩.