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

Author/Contributor(s):	Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	06/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...