འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད intro.5
The Quintessence of the Sun intro.5
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The sūtra is quoted in Nāgārjuna’s ⁶ and in Tsongkhapa’s major work on the stages of spiritual progress, the lam rim chen mo.⁷ In terms of modern scholarship, the French scholar Sylvain Lévi includes translations from the Chinese of three long passages of the sūtra in an influential essay that investigates connections between Indian Buddhism and Central Asia.⁸ Bill Mak and Jeffrey Kotyk discuss some of the astrological elements contained in the sūtra in publications that focus on Buddhist astral science in China and its relationships with India.⁹ A passage of the text has also been translated by Jonathan Silk in his study of administrative roles in Indian Buddhist monasticism.¹⁰