Recent scholarship has discovered many early Mahāyāna texts which shed light into the development of Mahāyāna. Among these is the "Śālistamba Sutra" which survives in Tibetan and Chinese translation. This text contains numerous sections which are remarkably similar to Pali suttas. The "Śālistamba Sutra" was cited by Mahāyāna scholars such as the 8th-century Yasomitra to be authoritative. This suggests that Buddhist literature of different traditions shared a common core of Buddhist texts in the early centuries of its history, until Mahāyāna literature diverged about and after the 1st century CE.