This is a text by the greatNyingma scholar-practitioner Ju Mipham Namgyal [1846-1912]. Mipham, as he is usually called, has become the most well known ofNyingma scholars.

His text here concerns the practice of the innermost level of Great Completion The innermost level of Great Comple­ tion has two main practices, one called Thorough Cut (chod) and one called Direct Crossing. Of the two, this text concerns itself with the practice of Thorough Cut.