The Buddhist tradition in India, China & Japan / edited by Wm. Theodore De Bary ; with the collaboration of Yoshito Hakeda and Philip Yampolsky and with contributions by A.L. Basham, Leon Hurvitz, and Ryusaku Tsunoda.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index.
Contents
Early Buddhism -- The life of Buddha as a way of salvation -- "The greater vehicle" of Mahāyāna Buddhism -- Tantricism and the decline of Buddhism in India -- The coming of Buddhism to China -- The schools of Chinese Buddhism -- The introduction of Buddhism to Japan -- Saichō and the lotus teaching -- Kūkai and esoteric Buddhism -- Amida and the pure land -- Nichiren's faith in the lotus -- Zen.