GENERAL INTRODUCTION I.Buddhist Tantras, Esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism 1 II.Canonical and Non-canonical Sources and Materials 3 III. Esoteric Buddhist Practices 5
ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN CHINA IV. Developments during the 3rd–7th Centuries:New Scriptures and New Practices 11 V. Convergences: Esoteric Buddhism, Daoism, and Popular Religion 18 VI.Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang 23 VII: Key Figures in Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang 29 VIII: Esoteric Buddhism in the Provinces and Neighboring Regions 24 IX: Esoteric Buddhism and the Buddhist Tantras:The Song, Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Yunnan 38 X: The Broader Impact of Esoteric Buddhism 48 XI: From Kublai’s Conquest to the Present: The Impact of Tibetan and Central Asian Vajrayana in China 52
ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN KOREA 56
ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN JAPAN XII: Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian 59 XIII: Medieval (Kamakura, Muromachi and Azuka–Momoyama) 68 XIV: Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary (Edo, Meiji, and up to the Present) 80
