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020 _a9781501737640
_q(cloth ;
_qalk. paper)
020 _a9781501737657
_q(pbk. ;
_qalk. paper)
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050 0 0 _aBQ599.U43
_bA27 2019
082 0 0 _a294.309517/3
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100 1 _aAbrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEnlightenment and the gasping city :
_bMongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray /
_cSaskia Abrahms-Kavunenko.
264 1 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
300 _axiv, 234 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [213]-224) and index.
505 0 _aDust 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.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aBuddhism
_zMongolia
_zUlaanbaatar.
650 0 _aAir
_xPollution
_zMongolia
_zUlaanbaatar.
650 0 _aHuman ecology
_zMongolia
_zUlaanbaatar.
650 0 _aHuman ecology
_xReligious aspects
_xBuddhism.
650 0 _aEthnology
_zMongolia
_zUlaanbaatar.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aAbrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia, author.
_tEnlightenment and the gasping city
_dIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
_z9781501737664
_w(DLC) 2018050327
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