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Other masters, including Amoghavajra’s disciple Huiguo, are reputed
to have used these techniques; Michel Strickmann (1996), Edward
L. Davis (2001), and Frederick M. Smith (2006) have all argued that
the methods introduced by Vajrabodhi and his followers inform and
underlie later Chinese exorcism practice in the Tang, Five Dynas-
ties, and Song periods, and especially prominent in these rites is the
vidyārāja Ucchusma (Huiji jin’gang ̣ ).^17
(^17) See Strickmann 1996, 213–41; Davis 2001, esp. 115–152, and Smith 2006, 435 ff.