Buddhism and Waste

Trine Brox is Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg is Affiliate Researcher of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Sanskrit DiacriticsIntroduction: A Framework for Studying Buddhism and Waste, Trine Brox (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)1. Generosity’s Limits: Buddhist Excess and Waste in Northeast Tibet, Jane Caple (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)2. Modern Minimalism and the Magical Buddhist Art of Disposal, Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne, Australia)3. The Afterlives of Butsudan: Ambivalence and the Disposal of Home Altars in the United States and Canada, Jeff Wilson (University of Waterloo, Canada)4. The Great Heisei Doll Massacre: Disposal and the Production of Ignorance in Contemporary Japan, Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London, UK)5. Reincarnating Sacred Objects: The Recycling of Generative Efficacy and the Question of Waste in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Material Cultures, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa (Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA)6. Zombie Rubbish and Mummy Materiality: The Undead and the Fate of Mongolian Waste, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko (University of Copehagen, Denmark) 7. Something Rotten in Shangri-La: Green Buddhism, Brown Buddhism, and the Problem of Waste in Ladakh, India, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)List of ContributorsIndex

An original and timely volume that discusses the materiality of Buddhism from the point of view of waste and discarded objects. An excellent source of insight.