内容简介：
This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.
目录：
Buddhist tantras, esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayāna Buddhism --
Canonical and non-canonical sources and materials --
Esoteric Buddhist practices --
Developments during the 3rd-7th centuries new scriptures and new practices --
Convergences : esoteric Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion --
Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang --
Key figures in esoteric Buddhism during the Tang --
Esoteric Buddhism in the provinces and neighboring regions --
Esoteric Buddhism and the Buddhist tantras : The Song, Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Yunnan --
The broader impact of esoteric Buddhism --
From Kublai's conquest to the present : the impact of Tibetan and Central Asian Vajrayāna in China --
Esoteric Buddhism in Korea --
Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian --
Medieval (Kamakura, Muromachi and Azuka-Momoyama) --
Early modern, modern and contemporary (Edo, Meiji, and up to the Present).