Shingon Buddhism (真言宗, Shingon-shū) is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia, originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra. The word shingon is the Japanese reading of the Chinese word 真言 (zhēnyán), which is the Chinese transcription of the Sanskrit word "mantra".