Caryāmelāpakapradīpa (tantrayana)

For the bodhisattvayana text, see Caryāmelāpakapradīpa (bodhisattvayana).

Caryamelapakapradipa ("Lamp for Integrating the Practices"). A commentary on the Guhyasamāja Tantra attributed to a tantric practitioner named Aryadeva.

The Wisdom Publications editors state:

The Lamp for Integrating the Practices (Caryāmelāpakapradīpa) by Āryadeva, is a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the most advanced yogas of the Esoteric Community Tantra (Guhyasamāja-tantra) as espoused by the Noble (Nāgārjuna) tradition, an influential school of interpretation within Indian Buddhist mysticism. Equal in authority to Nāgārjuna’s famous Five Stages (Pañcakrama), Āryadeva’s work is perhaps the earliest prose example of the “stages of the mantra path” genre in Sanskrit. Its systematic path exerted immense influence on later Indian and Tibetan traditions, and it is widely cited by masters from all four major lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

Tibet text

• Derge Tengyur, toh 1803

Translation

• Āryadeva's Lamp that Integrates the Practices (Caryāmelāpakapradīpa): The Gradual Path of Vajrayāna Buddhism according to the Esoteric Community Noble Tradition, edited and translated by Christian K. Wedemeyer (New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies/Columbia University Press, 2007). Publisher's page