འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.38

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Chapter 5 is almost entirely composed of the contents of Putting an End to Karmic Obscurations (Toh 219),²³ differing only in its introduction and conclusion. The twenty-nine-chapter version’s chapter 5 is identical in its translation to the sūtra as it appears in the Kangyur. Even where there are some minor differences between that chapter 5 and the sūtra in the Degé Kangyur version, those discrepancies do not exist in earlier Kangyurs. The translators of The Sūtra of Putting an End to Karmic Obscurations were Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, and Yeshé Dé, and that translation appears to have been incorporated by Jinamitra, Nalendrabodhi, and Yeshé Dé into their translation of the twenty-nine-chapter Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light. Chapter 6 primarily comprises The Sūtra of Akṣayamati’s Questions (Toh 89), without the introductory setting and with additional verses and an extra conclusion. That sūtra was translated by Silendrabodhi and Yeshé Dé, and their translation has been incorporated word-for-word into the translation of The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light by Jinamitra, Nalendrabodhi, and Yeshé Dé.