Sutra of golden radiance: content, translation, language

Sutra of Golden Radiance has been known in Central Asia since XIV century. It's been a ritual book at public prayers and up to present time it's been an object for very strong worship among buddists all over the world. In this paper we tried to explain the reasons for such worship and tried to present all possible to find information about this sutra: its origin, variants of translation, content, language, etc.