a painting of a buddha sitting on a lotus

The three Indian tantric masters, Shan Wuwei, Jin Gangzhi, and Bu Kong Sanzang, came to China and passed down the teachings of tantric Buddhism. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Tibet by Mongolians, and after integration with local Lamaism, it formed Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the court believed that Esoteric Buddhism was too strange and ordered its abolition. As a result, the influence of Esoteric Buddhism in the Central Plains gradually declined. However, in the late Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Esoteric True Word School, which was replaced by Master Konghai in Japan, was widely spread. Esoteric Buddhism regards Piluzana (also known as the Great Sun Tathagata, and the famous Kamakura Buddha is Piluzana) as the supreme commander and founder of the teachings, and strongly advocates inheritance, true words, and esoteric mantras. And another major feature of it is that Tantra believes that