03478nam 2200637 450 991080718080332120200520144314.01-5017-3765-11-5017-3766-X10.7591/9781501737664(CKB)4100000008152830(OCoLC)1057731231(MdBmJHUP)muse74548(DE-B1597)527365(DE-B1597)9781501737664(Au-PeEL)EBL5763928(MiAaPQ)EBC5763928(EXLCZ)99410000000815283020190520d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray /Saskia Abrahms-KavunenkoIthaca, New York ;London :Cornell University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (251 pages)1-5017-3764-3 1-5017-3767-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --IndexWith 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.BuddhismMongoliaUlaanbaatarAirPollutionMongoliaUlaanbaatarHuman ecologyMongoliaUlaanbaatarHuman ecologyReligious aspectsBuddhismEthnologyMongoliaUlaanbaatarMongolian Buddhism.air pollution.boundary between physical and immaterial.urban issues.BuddhismAirPollutionHuman ecologyHuman ecologyReligious aspectsBuddhism.Ethnology294.3095173Abrahms-Kavunenko Saskia1664187MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807180803321Enlightenment and the gasping city4022067UNINA