འཕགས་པ་གནས་འཇག་པའ་མད་ཞས་བྱ་བ notes.5

notes.5

5. Preserved in Persian and Arabic, this work was authored by Rashīd al-Dīn Hamadani (1247–1318), who used information obtained from a Kashmiri monk known as Kamālashrī Bakhshī to produce the India- and Buddhism-related sections. On this topic, see Schopen 1982 and Jahn 1956. Karl Jahn, writing in the middle of the twentieth century, produced a summary of the section that Schopen later determined to be a version of The Sūtra of Vasiṣṭha within the Compendium. Based on Jahn’s summary, the Vasiṣṭha account that Rashīd al-Dīn includes does, indeed, seem to be a version of the sūtra translated here. However, Jahn’s summary offers certain details that are absent from Toh 333. See, for example, Jahn 1956, p. 100, where the Buddha is said to list six days of the month on which one might fast if one wishes to be reborn in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three.