GULIK, Robert van.

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Hayagriva. The Mantrayanic Aspect of Horse-Cult in China and Japan. First edition of van Gulik's doctoral thesis on the cross-cultural evolution of the Hindu and Buddhist deity Hayagriva, including extensive comment on the growth of a syncretic religious tradition in East Asia. This is the copy of Philip Karl Eidmann (1924-1997), formerly a faculty member of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, with his bookplate.

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