Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Enlightenment and the gasping city

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko

Sub title

Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray

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, revitalization 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

Target audience

adult

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