Lamp to Dispel Darkness

A Lamp to Dispel Darkness: An Instruction that Points Directly to the Very Essence of Mind in the Tradition of ‘the Old Realized Ones’ (T. rtogs ldan rgan po rnams kyi lugs sems ngo mdzub tshugs kyi gdams pa mun sel sgron me རྟོགས་ལྡན་རྒན་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ལུགས་སེམས་་ངོ་མཛུབ་ཚུགས་ཀྱི་གདམས་པ་མུན་སེལ་སྒྲོན་མེ།) — a brief text on Dzogchen view and meditation composed by Mipham Rinpoche in 1906.

Translations

• Adam Pearcey, A Lamp to Dispel Darkness, Lotsawa House
• B. Alan Wallace. A Lamp to Dispel Darkness: Advice for Pointing Out the Mind in Accordance with the Tradition of the Old Realized Ones. archive.org
• Erik Pema Kunsang (trans.), Crystal Cave, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1990 (restricted)
• Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche and Gerry Wiener (trans). "The Way of the Old Realized Ones, the Instructions Pointing Out the Nature of Mind, the Torch that Dispels Darkness" in Pristine Awareness: Short Dzogchen Texts. Jeweled Lotus Publications, 2023.
• Padmakara Translation Group, "A Lamp to Dispel the Dark" in Dilgo Khyentse, Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2020)
• Duff, Tony (2009) The Way of the Realized Old Dogs, Advice that Points out the Essence of Mind, called "A Lamp that Dispels the Darkness". PKTC

Commentaries

• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Lamp that Dispels Darkness: Instructions that Points Directly to the Nature of the Mind According to the Tradition of the Old Meditators, The Collected Works of Dilgo Khyentse (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2010), Vol. 3, pages 669-700.

External Links

• Oral Teachings by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
• Lamp to Dispel Darkness, Rigpa Shedra Wiki