འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.40
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) intro.40
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In Tibetan, the twenty-nine-chapter version and this thirty-one-chapter version do appear to preserve passages that were lost from the twenty-one-chapter version (Toh 557). For example, chapter 12 in Toh 557, “The Treatise on Kingship,” begins abruptly: “At that time …,” having evidently lost the introductory narrative—present in the equivalent chapter (chapter 20) in the longer versions—that sets the action in a distant past.