Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia,
Enlightenment and the gasping city : Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray / Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko. - xiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-224) and index.
Dust and obscuration in a new economy -- A history of enlightenment in Mongolia -- Buddhism, purification and the nation -- Ignorance and blur -- Networks and visibility -- Karma and purification -- Removing blockages, increasing energy -- Temple critiques -- White foods, purification and enlightenment -- Conclusion : stillness and movement.
"A timely exploration of how human beings experience their increasingly degraded environments, this book demonstrates how the pollution of the air, with its attendant limitations on light and breath, creates obscurations both cosmologically and materially for the residents of Ulaanbaatar, and how these blockages reside in a dynamic relationship with light, purification and enlightenment"--
9781501737640 9781501737657
2018047981
Buddhism--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
Air--Pollution--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
Human ecology--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
Human ecology--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Ethnology--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
BQ599.U43 / A27 2019
294.309517/3
Enlightenment and the gasping city : Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray / Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko. - xiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-224) and index.
Dust and obscuration in a new economy -- A history of enlightenment in Mongolia -- Buddhism, purification and the nation -- Ignorance and blur -- Networks and visibility -- Karma and purification -- Removing blockages, increasing energy -- Temple critiques -- White foods, purification and enlightenment -- Conclusion : stillness and movement.
"A timely exploration of how human beings experience their increasingly degraded environments, this book demonstrates how the pollution of the air, with its attendant limitations on light and breath, creates obscurations both cosmologically and materially for the residents of Ulaanbaatar, and how these blockages reside in a dynamic relationship with light, purification and enlightenment"--
9781501737640 9781501737657
2018047981
Buddhism--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
Air--Pollution--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
Human ecology--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
Human ecology--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Ethnology--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.
BQ599.U43 / A27 2019
294.309517/3