[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras of the Great Collection](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata) › [Sūryagarbha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha) › [འཕགས་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྡེ་ཉི་མའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo) › [The Quintessence of the Sun](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000) › notes.18 # འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.18 The Quintessence of the Sun notes.18 - **Language:** English ### [notes.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.notes.18) 18. The Candragarbhaparipṛcchā (The Questions of Candragarbha), and to a lesser degree The Quintessence of the Sun, are part of a wider group of texts that focus on the spread, duration, and decline of the Buddha’s teachings, and have sometimes been termed “prophecies of decline” or “prophetic histories.” For an account of the Buddhist “prophetic history” literature, see Nattier 1991. - [Previous: notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.notes.17) - [Next: notes.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.notes.19) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.notes.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.notes.18) · Pramāṇa