"His Holiness the Dalai Lama" by Eurasian68

During this week long stay in Hamburg, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave lectures everyday on ARYADEVA The 400 Verses concerning the Practices on the Way to Enlightenment.

The Colophon

This concludes the Treatise of Four Hundred Stanzas on the Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas from the mouth of Aryadeva, the spiritual son at the Exalted Naga's feet. He was born miraculously from the heart of a lotus on the island of Sinhala. Having crossed the ocean of our own and others' tenets himself, he made the Middle Way most clear by distinguishing between correct and incorrect views.

It was translated and (the meaning) settled in the temple of Ratnaguptavihara in the center of the glorious Kashmiri city of Anupamapura by the Indian abbot Suksmajana, son of the Brahmin Sajjana from paternal line of the Brahmin Ratnavajra and by and the Tibetan translator Ba-tsap Nyi-ma-rak who had consummate understanding of all texts on sutra and tantra. The meaning of the text was properly settled by explaining and listening to it.