The book introduces monuments of architecture, sculpture, painting, landscape gardening, theater and literature, created under the influence of Buddhism in India, China, Japan. It analyzes in detail the works of art that arose in these regions as an echo of the teachings of Hinayana and Mahayana, various esoteric sects and schools - Vajrayans in Tibet, Chan Buddhism in China, Shingon, Tendai, Jodo and Zen in Japan.