Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
The provided fragment of The Lamp of the Result: The Final Limit (Tibetan: Mthar thug ’bras bu’i sgron ma) serves as the introductory protocol of a Buddhist treatise. The text begins by establishing its bilingual identity, providing both the Sanskrit title (Koṭiniṣṭhaphalapradīpanāma) and the Tibetan translation. It follows standard Indo-Tibetan literary conventions by initiating the work with devotional homages to Mañjuśrī and the enlightened beings who facilitate liberation from saṃsāra. While the fragment cuts off mid-sentence, it indicates a transition from ritual preamble to the technical exposition of the dharma of practice. The text commits the reader to a framework of soteriological practice aimed at achieving the ultimate fruit of the path, positioning itself as a guide for practitioners seeking deliverance from cyclic existence through the application of specific Buddhist methodologies.
Provenance
About this text
A treatise focused on the dharma of practice, the Koṭiniṣṭhaphalapradīpa (Tibetan: mthar thug 'bras bu'i sgron ma) belongs to the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. This work is preserved in the Tengyur, volume ཞི, where it extends to one page, and it is categorized within the classical Tibetan period. The text opens with a bilingual identification of its title and devotional homages to Mañjuśrī and the sublime beings who deliver practitioners from the waters of saṃsāra. It enacts a transition from ritual preamble to a technical exposition, arguing that conviction in the teachings of the sublime ones is essential because the dharma of practice is meaningful. A scholar or serious reader consults this work to examine a guide for achieving the ultimate fruit of the path and to understand the soteriological framework intended to facilitate liberation from cyclic existence.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “The Lamp of the Result: The Final Limit” (Toh 2320), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2320
Summary & commentary
Significance
The work is significant as it represents the transmission of Indian Buddhist philosophical systems into the Tibetan canon. Its focus on the ultimate fruit suggests it belongs to a genre of texts concerned with the final stages of the path to enlightenment.
Structure
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Description
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Introduction
Contains the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles, homages to Mañjuśrī and the enlightened beings, and the beginning of the discussion on the dharma of practice.
Themes
Soteriology (1)
Devotional Preamble (1)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
In the language of India: Koṭiniṣṭhaphalapradīpanāma. In the language of Tibet: Mthar thug ’bras bu’i sgron ma (The Lamp of the Ultimate Fruit). Homage to Mañjuśrī, the Lion of Speech.
I bow to the sublime, supreme beings who deliver one from the waters of saṃsāra. Since the dharma of practice is meaningful, one should have conviction in what the sublime ones have taught. The Lamp of the Ultimate Fruit should be understood in two aspects: the provisional fruit of the cause and the ultimate fruit of realization.
Because it bestows the fruit that accords with the cause, one should apply oneself earnestly to the dharma of practice. The three—space, the vajra, and entering the city—are the fruits of functional flexibility. The fruit of realization consists of the five bodies: the essence is emptiness, the dharmakāya; the nature is clarity, the saṃbhogakāya; the characteristic is experience, the nirmāṇakāya; the essence of their union is the svabhāvikakāya; and self-liberation and self-purity are the body of great bliss. In reality, there is nothing whatsoever to be illustrated. These two lamps of cause and effect are taught for the conventional mind in order to reverse clinging; since the ultimate is inexpressible, the Victorious One has not spoken a single word.
The Lamp of the Ultimate Fruit, composed by the venerable Kamalaśīla, is hereby complete.
Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).
Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.