Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Conventions of Usage -- Introduction Prolegomenon to the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature -- Part 1 The Historical and Cosmological Background -- 1 The Date and Provenance of the Treasure Store Treatise -- 2 Chinese Buddhism and the Cosmology of Sympathetic Resonance -- Part 2 Annotated Translation of the Treasure Store Treatise -- Introduction to the Translation -- 3 The Treasure Store Treatise Chapter One: The Broad Illumination of Emptiness and Being -- 4 The Treasure Store Treatise Chapter Two: The Essential Purity of Transcendence and Subtlety -- 5 The Treasure Store Treatise Chapter Three: The Empty Mystery of the Point of Genesis -- Appendix 1 On Esoteric Buddhism in China -- Appendix 2 Scriptural Quotations in the Treasure Store Treatise -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.