Shingon is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is a form of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and is sometimes called "Tōm
Danjō garan of Kongōbu-ji, the head temple of the Kōyasan sect based in Mount Kōya
Kamakura-period statue of Thousand-armed Kannon at Sanjūsangen-dō in Kyoto, Japan.
Painting of Kūkai from a set of scrolls depicting the first eight patriarchs of the Shingon school. Japan, Kamakura period (13th–14th centuries).
Jingo-ji, on Mount Takao, the first major temple in which Kūkai worked on his return to Japan
Tendai, also known as the Tendai Dharma Flower School, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition with significant esoteric elements that was officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese monk Saichō.
Enryaku-ji, the head temple of Tendai at Mount Hiei
Mount Hiei in Spring from Umahashi over the Takano river
A statue of Ennin, an important disciple of Saicho