The Cult of Tara

xvi PREFACE
scholarly nit-picking; to my late teacher Richard Robinson, of
the Department of Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, who
constantly challenged me with his own fierce intellectual honesty;
and to Roger Williams, who drew the frontispiece for this book.
And especially I want to thank my wife Judy, who did not type up
my manuscript, renew my library books or correct my spelling, but
who rather performed the much more important function of
constantly reminding me, in India and in America, that a Buddhologist
does not deal with Buddhism so much as he deals with
Buddhists.