Enlightenment and the Gasping City : Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray /

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"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 h...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Human ecology > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Human ecology.
Ethnology.
Buddhism.
Air > Pollution.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Ethnologie > Mongolie > Oulan-Bator.
Écologie humaine > Mongolie > Oulan-Bator.
Bouddhisme > Mongolie > Oulan-Bator.
Ethnology > Mongolia > Ulaanbaatar.
Human ecology > Mongolia > Ulaanbaatar.
Air > Pollution > Mongolia > Ulaanbaatar.
Buddhism > Mongolia > Ulaanbaatar.
Mongolia > Ulaanbaatar.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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