This exhibition is a collaboration with MIHO MUSEUM, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, and Ōtsu City Museum of History to explore the traditional religious culture of Ōmi from three vantage points. MIHO MUSEUM presents “The Path to Tendai Buddhism” highlighting Buddhist statues and paintings from Ōmi. The MIHO MUSEUM presentation explores the world view of the Dual World Mandala (J., ryōkai mandara), which brings together the world of the buddhas and bodhisattvas developed through Mahāyanā Buddhism and the esoteric Buddhism introduced to Japan by the Shingon master Kūkai. The exhibition traces the process in which Tendai Buddhism was established in Japan by the priests Saichō (767–822), Ennin (794–864), and Enchin (814–891), who greatly influenced religion in the Ōmi area and Japan.