
By Burton Watson
The nice Buddhist priest Kûkai (774-835) is credited with the creation and institution of tantric -or esoteric -Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan. In Ryûichi Abé examines this crucial spiritual determine -neglected in smooth educational literatu
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