Enlightenment and the gasping city : Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray / Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko.
By: Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia [author.].
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BookPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2019]Description: xiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501737640; 9781501737657.Subject(s): Buddhism -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar | Air -- Pollution -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar | Human ecology -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar | Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism | Ethnology -- Mongolia -- UlaanbaatarAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Enlightenment and the gasping cityDDC classification: 294.309517/3 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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"--
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