In late imperial China, the early traditions of Esoteric Buddhism were still thriving in Buddhist communities.

" Traditions of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism are most commonly referred to as referred as Tángmì ( 唐密 ), " Tang Dynasty Esoterica ," or Hànchuán Mìzōng ( 漢傳密宗 ), " Han Transmission Esoteric School " ( Hànmì 漢密 for short ), or Dōngmì ( 東密 ), " Eastern Esoterica ," separating itself from Tibetan and Newar traditions.

Esoteric groups that could be considered to be RHP include Theosophy, as well as various Neopagan religions such as Druidry, Wicca, Kemetism, Celtic Neopaganism, Slavic Neopaganism, Germanic Neopaganism, Nova Roma, Hellenic Neopaganism and the Rada cult of Haitian Vodou, most of Thelema, and certain traditions of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, or the Gnostic Catholic Church.

Rāgarāja (; ) is a Mahayana Buddhist deity from the Esoteric and Vajrayana traditions.

In Mahāyāna Buddhism, including the traditions of Esoteric Buddhism, the 32 major characteristics and 80 minor characteristics are understood to be present in a buddha's sambhogakāya, or reward-body.

Esoteric Christians practice these forms or traditions, which they believe are all a part of the same spiritual truth, which help to convey " mystery knowledge ", which can only be learned directly from spiritual experience via Theurgy, Kabbalah, or Mysticism.

This era also saw the emergence of Hindu tantrism and the beginnings of Esoteric Buddhism and the siddha traditions.

* Japanese monk Kukai visits China, from which he brings back texts of Shingon ( Esoteric Buddhism ).

Esoteric teachings followed the same route into northern China as Buddhism itself, arriving via the Silk Road sometime during the first half of the 7th century, during the Tang Dynasty.

Esoteric Mantrayana practices arrived from India just as Buddhism was reaching its zenith in China, and received sanction from the emperors of the Tang Dynasty.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol emperors made Esoteric Buddhism the official religion of China, and Tibetan lamas were given patronage at the court.

In China and countries with large Chinese populations such as Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is commonly referred as Tángmì ( 唐密 ) " Tang Dynasty Secret Buddhism ," or Hànchuánmìzōng ( 漢傳密宗 ) " Secret Buddhism of the Han Transmission " ( Hànmì 漢密 for short ), or Dōngmì ( 東密 ) " Eastern Secret Buddhism.

is one of the mainstream major schools of Japanese Buddhism and one of the few surviving Esoteric Buddhist lineages that started in the 3rd to 4th century CE that originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra.

Shingon Buddhist doctrine and teachings arose during the Heian period ( 794-1185 ) when a Buddhist monk named Kūkai traveled to China in 804 to study Esoteric Buddhist practices in the city of Xi ' an ( 西安 ) ( then called Chang-an ), at Qinglong Temple ( 青龍寺, Blue Dragon Temple ) under Master Huiguo, a favorite student of the legendary Amoghavajra and returned to Japan as his lineage and Dharma successor.

" Huiguo had foreseen that Esoteric Buddhism would not survive in India and China in the near future and that it was Kukai's destiny to see it continue in Japan.

Shingon is the name of this lineage in Japan, but there are also esoteric schools in China, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong that consider themselves part of this lineage ( as the originators of the Esoteric teachings ) and universally recognize Kūkai as their eighth patriarch.

In China and countries with large Chinese populations such as Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore, Esoteric Buddhism is most commonly referred to as the Chinese term Mìzōng ( 密宗 ), or " Esoteric School.

Furthermore, there are heterodox branches of Esoteric Christianity that practice divination, blessings, or appealing to angels for certain intervention, which they view as perfectly righteous, often supportable by gospel ( for instance, claiming that the old commandment against divination was superseded by Christ's birth, and noting that the Magi used astrology to locate Bethlehem ).

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Meanwhile, their Ohr and Jive Electro catalogs ( known as the " Pink " and " Blue " Years ) are currently owned by Esoteric Recordings.

The activities of the Sufi Order International, in keeping with the vision of Hazrat Inayat Khan, are contained within five concentrations — The Esoteric School, The Healing Order, The Universal Worship, Kinship Activity, and Ziraat.

An octopoidal elder claims to be a Martian, and the Great Old Ones are also vaguely hinted at existing in this universe via the existence of the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

Visualization practises for Amitābha are also popular in Japanese Shingon Buddhism as well as other schools of Esoteric Buddhism.

These are the four principal texts of Esoteric Buddhism.

# Esoteric teachings are preached by the Dharmakaya ( Hosshin 法身 ) Buddha which Kūkai identifies as Mahavairocana ( Dainichi Nyorai 大日如來 ).

Some tantras used in Tibetan Buddhism, such as the Guhyasamaja Tantra, Yamantaka Tantra, Hevajra Tantra, Mahamaya Tantra, Cakrasamsarva Tantra, and the Kalachakra Tantra were developed in the later period of Esoteric Buddhism, and are not used in the Shingon school.

Shingon teachings contain Esoteric teachings ( such as the Rishukyo ) as well as Exoteric teachings ( such as the Diamond Sutra ), and are in all likelihood also the most secretive Buddhist teachings in the world.

In Orthodox Esoteric Buddhism, divine beings are grouped into six classes.

Esoteric concepts are concepts which cannot be fully conveyed except by direct experience.

Esoteric interpretations are found mainly in Sufism and in the sayings ( hadiths ) of Shi ' a Imams and the teachings of the Isma ' ili sect.

Theories of spiritual evolution are important in many Occult and Esoteric teachings, which emphasise the progression and development of the individual either after death ( spiritualism ) or through successive reincarnations ( Theosophy, Hermeticism ).

Thus, New Age conspiracy theorists, such as the makers of documentary films like Esoteric Agenda, claim that globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order are simply misusing occultism for Machiavellian ends, such as adopting 21 December 2012 as the exact date for the establishment of the New World Order in order to take advantage of the growing 2012 phenomenon, which has its origins in the fringe Mayanist theories of New Age writers José Argüelles, Terence McKenna, and Daniel Pinchbeck.

In this future, the Esoteric Hitlerists are said to have established secret bases in Antarctica.

7L & Esoteric ( 7LES ) are a Boston-based hip-hop duo, notorious for battle rhymes and boom-bap production.

7L & Esoteric are both prominent members of the underground hip-hop groups the Demigodz and Army of the Pharaohs.

Meanwhile, on the Roman Empire's border, two legionaries are ambushed and tied up by a band of Goths ( Tartaric, Esoteric, Atmospheric, Prehistoric and Choleric ), intending to kidnap the Druid of the Year and use his magic to conquer Gaul and Rome.

They are also heavily associated with the underground rap group " Demigodz " which features similar underground artists such as Apathy, Celph Titled, and 7L & Esoteric.

Esoteric movements in Buddhism, which fall under the general category of Vajrayana Buddhism, employ esoteric training into Buddha's teachings, through use of symbols, mantra and hand-gestures, or mudra.

When the teachings of Shingon Buddhism were brought to Japan, Esoteric Buddhism was still in its early stages in India.

East Asian Esoteric Buddhism is also practiced in the Japanese Tendai School ( 天台宗 ), founded in the same era as the Shingon School in the early 9th century ( Heian period ), although Tendai doctrine contain mostly exoteric teachings.

The general term for Esoteric Buddhism in Japan is mikkyō ( 密教 ; literally " secret teachings ").

* Esoteric teachings of Jesus

Tendai and Esoteric practices, he felt, provided a direct path ( jikido ) to enlightenment, whereas the teachings of the Nara schools required aeons to bring the practitioner to enlightenment.

Ether is reported to be of four kinds, or grades of density in our planet Earth ; their names ( from the lowest or most dense to the highest or most subtle one ) and their relation to the human being, from the point of view of these Esoteric Christian teachings, is as following:

According to Theosophical writings, Djwal Khul is said to work on furthering the spiritual evolution of our planet through the teachings offered in the 24 books by Alice Bailey of Esoteric Teachings published by The Lucis Trust ; he is said to have telepathically transmitted the teachings to Bailey and is thus regarded by her followers as the communications director of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom.

Most significantly, Enchin united the Tendai school's teachings with those of Esoteric Buddhism, and interpreted the Lotus Sutra from the point of view of the Esoteric teachings as well as used Tendai terminology in order to explain the esoteric Mahavairocana Sutra.