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Enlightenment and the Gasping City : Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray / Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) : 12 b&w halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501737664
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.309517/3 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ599.U43
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Terms -- Introduction -- 1. Dust and Obscuration in a New Economy -- 2. A History of Enlightenment in Mongolia -- 3. Buddhism, Purification, and the Nation -- 4. Ignorance and Blur -- 5. Networks and Visibility -- 6. Karma and Purification -- 7. Removing Blockages, Increasing Energy -- 8. Temple Critiques -- 9. White Foods, Purification, and Enlightenment -- Conclusion: Stillness and Movement -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Terms -- Introduction -- 1. Dust and Obscuration in a New Economy -- 2. A History of Enlightenment in Mongolia -- 3. Buddhism, Purification, and the Nation -- 4. Ignorance and Blur -- 5. Networks and Visibility -- 6. Karma and Purification -- 7. Removing Blockages, Increasing Energy -- 8. Temple Critiques -- 9. White Foods, Purification, and Enlightenment -- Conclusion: Stillness and Movement -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index

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With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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