Gyel-tsap Dar-ma-rin-chen states that Aryadeva's Four Hundred Stanzas was written to explain how, according to Nagarjuna, the practice of the stages of yogic deeds enables those with Mahayana motivation to attain Buddhahood.
Both Nagarjuna and Aryadeva urge those who want to understand reality to induce direct experience of ultimate truth through philosophic inquiry and reasoning.
Aryadeva's text is more than a commentary on Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Middle Way because it also.
Snow Lion Publications Aryadeva's four hundred stanzas on the middle way, paperback/geshe sonam rinchen
