The textual history of the TGS 144 The content of the TGS 147 The doctrine of the TGS 149 Possible motivations for the composition of the TGS 153 The TUSN and the Saddharmapundarika - two predecessors of the TGS 155 Structural and formal parallels between the TGS and the SP 156 The TGS as a doctrinal successor of the SP 165