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

Author/creator Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Description1 online resource.
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Subjects

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.
Abstract "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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia, author. Enlightenment and the gasping city Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501737640
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018050327
ISBN9781501737664 (pdf)
ISBN9781501737671 (epub/mobi)

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