Lamp that Illuminates Ultimate Reality

Lamp that Illuminates Ultimate Reality (T. de kho na nyid gsal ba’i sgron me). A commentary by Jamgon Mipham on on Mañjuśrīmitra’s rdo la gser zhun ("Refining gold from ore").

Gregory Forgues states:

Mipham composed only a few texts directly pertaining to Dzogchen literature, so he must have considered this work to be quite important, since his commentary is quite detailed. In addition, he makes clear that he consulted earlier commentaries in order to compose his own. Mipham’s interest in this text may be related to his main guru, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, who was an emanation of Mañjuśrī and Vimalamitra, Mañjuśrīmitra’s main disciple. At the age of sixteen, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo thus had an important vision of Mañjuśrīmitra. In his eulogy of Mañjuśrīmitra’s instructions, Mipham invokes the power of these instructions for “whoever has a connection,” the role of the lineage being, as is well known, fundamental in Dzogchen. In addition, one should note that Mañjuśrī, to whom this text is dedicated, was Mipham’s principal deity.

Translation

• '“The Lamp Illuminating Reality,” a Word Commentary of “Refining Gold from Ore,”' in Radical Nonduality: Ju Mipham Namgyal Gyatso's Discourse On Reality. Translated by Gregory Forgues. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. 2024 PDF

Full title in English and Tibetan

• “The Lamp Illuminating Reality,” a Word Commentary of “Refining Gold from Ore,” the Practice of the Thought of Awakening. (T. Byang chub sems bsgom pa rdo la gser zhun gyi mchan ’grel de kho na nyid gsal ba’i sgron me zhes bya ba zhugs so)

Sources

• Gregory Forgues (2024). Radical Nonduality: Ju Mipham Namgyal Gyatso's Discourse On Reality. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. PDF