Title Enlightenment and the gasping city : Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray / Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) Contents 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 Summary "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." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2019) Subject Buddhism -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar Air -- Pollution -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar Human ecology -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. Ethnology -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Air -- Pollution Buddhism Ethnology Human ecology Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar Form Electronic book LC no. 2018050327 ISBN 9781501737664 150173766X 9781501737671 1501737678

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