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Author Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia, author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."
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Subject Buddhism -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar.
Buddhism.
Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar.
Air -- Pollution -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar.
Air -- Pollution.
Human ecology -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar.
Human ecology.
Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Ethnology -- Mongolia -- Ulaanbaatar.
Ethnology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia. Enlightenment and the gasping city. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501737640 (DLC) 2018047981
ISBN 9781501737664 (electronic book)
150173766X (electronic book)
9781501737671 (electronic book)
1501737678 (electronic book)
9781501737640