Gegeen Zanabazar was the supreme spiritual leader of Mongolian Lamaism in Mongolia during the mid-C17th and the most energetic evangelist for the spread of Tibetan Buddhism into Mongolia albeit in an adapted Mongolian version.  He was instrumental in building monasteries and stupas but is perhaps best known for his sculptures of Buddhist deities to which this book is devoted.  Illustrated with 109 colour plates showing a variety of gilded bronze figurative sculptures attributed to Zanabazar, as well as manuscript portraits of him and other associated artefacts.  A detailed four-page biographical essay precedes the illustrations.  Text and captions are quadrilingual – Russian, English, French and Spanish.  Hardback in dustjacket.  In very good clean condition.  Cat No  4602