Pt. 1. Definitions and dynamics. Ch. 1. Esoteric Buddhism and Mikkyō
Ch. 2. A religion of images
Ch. 3. The function of icons and visuality as function
Pt. 2. Mikkyō visual culture and its sources. Ch. 4. Kūkai and China : inheriting Mikkyō visual culture
Ch. 5. Kūkai and Japan : transmitting Mikkyō visual culture
Pt. 3. Visions and cosmologies. Ch. 6. Sight and syncretism
Ch. 7. What they saw : the image looks back
Pt. 4. Vision, ritual, and imagery. Ch. 8. Contemplations and contemplative imagery
Ch. 9. Mikkyō ritual and imagery within ritual
Pt. 5. Choreographies of ritual space. Ch. 10. Mikkyō topographies : the spaces icons inhabited
Ch. 11. The Tōji Karma mandala
Glossary of Japanese characters
