Esoteric Buddhism is taken from India to…
720 CE
Esoteric Buddhism is taken from India to China, according to the Zhenyan tradition, by three missionary monks who have translated the basic Zhenyan texts.
The first monk, Shubhakarasimha, had arrived in China in 716, and he had translated the Mahavairocana-sutra and a closely related ritual compendium, the Susiddhikara, into Chinese.
The other two monks, Vajrabodhi and his disciple Amoghavajra, arrive in 720 and produce two abridged translations of the Sarvatathagatatattvasamgraha (“Symposium of Truth of All the Buddhas”), also known as the Tattvasamgraha.
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