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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.
Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses
on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks,
temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral,
economic exchanges are key to religious debate in Buddhist
societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in countries
ranging from India to Japan, including all three major Buddhist
traditions, the book addresses the flows of goods and services
between clergy and laity, the management of resources, the
treatment of money, and the role of the state in temple economies.
Along with documenting ritual and economic practices, these
accounts deal with the moral challenges that Buddhist adherents are
facing today, thereby bringing lived experience to the study of an
often-romanticized religion.
Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses
on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks,
temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral,
economic exchanges are key to religious debate in Buddhist
societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in countries
ranging from India to Japan, including all three major Buddhist
traditions, the book addresses the flows of goods and services
between clergy and laity, the management of resources, the
treatment of money, and the role of the state in temple economies.
Along with documenting ritual and economic practices, these
accounts deal with the moral challenges that Buddhist adherents are
facing today, thereby bringing lived experience to the study of an
often-romanticized religion.
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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