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Introduction: Placiality of Tibet -- Geopoetics of place, gods, and people in Sambha -- Confessions of an inner liberation -- Memorability of place among anti-traditionalists -- Touching the skin of modern Tibet in the New Tibetan Cinema -- Ensouling the mountain -- Drifting in the mirages of the Tibetan landscape -- Conclusion: Mindscaping Tibetophilia

"Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy. The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to different religious, cultural, and political constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of China's politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local and global transformative changes. The book is a useful contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese studies"--

Abstract
The environmental engagement of religious practices and academic research is becoming a formidable trend of global endeavors for building new environmental ethics in the Anthropocene, the currently human-induced geological state of the earth. This trend is predictable given the demographic fact that over 80% of the world's population consist of different religious traditions. The UNEP Faith for Earth Initiative attests to this diversely represented, spiritual approach to rethinking the geological and ecological meanings of being human in the 21st century. In this context, this article is intended to initiate what the author calls a public theology of the Anthropocene to discuss the ecological implications and environmental values of religiously and spiritually conceived understandings of the Earth as sacred and sentient. To this end, it comparatively takes Buddhist and Christian approaches to environmental sustainability as case studies and argues that, theologically and environmentally complementary to one another, the Christian idea of the sacred and the Buddhist notion of sentience offer geologically- and ecologically-lively spiritual understandings of the scientific concept of Deep Time, regarding the intrinsic value of the Earth with a life of her own.

This article offers an ideological examination of China's ecological civilisation initiative with respect to its globalisation agenda. The basic argument is that the Chinese state's eco-civilisation project is an open-ended, statist technocratic bricolage that appropriates a philosophy of human­nature harmony and facilitates a reformed communism intended to enchant both domestic and global audiences with a set of human universal values. The article considers eco-civilisation to be technically devised as an attractive initiative packed with the Chinese state's propagated universal values without a specific manual of operations. It is a one-size-fits-all concept but provides enough room for creative tailoring under specific circumstances in different geographical, cultural, economic and political contexts. In the course of delivering this argument, the article discusses how eco-civilisation is domestically and internationally promoted and how it is an inherent part of the renewed but reformed communism of the Chinese state.

Situating environmental humanities in the new Himalayas : an introduction / Dan Smyer Yü -- Relatedness, trans-species knots, and yak personhood in the Bhutan Highlands / Jelle J.P. Wouters -- Lepcha water view and climate change in Sikkim Himalaya / Charisma K. Lepcha -- Eco-spiritual and economic perceptions in Bhutan's Haa District / Thinley Dema -- Narratives from a fluvial world : poetics of Charland Dwelling in a Neocolonial Assam / Bhagarbi Das -- Painting the genesis of the Lepcha : a world emerging from water spirits / Rongnyoo Lepcha and Mongfing Lepcha -- Muddying the waters : the invention and enclosure of Tibet's wetlands / Ruth Gamble -- Aloof but not abandoned : relationality and the exploitation of the environment in the Garo Hills of India / Erik de Maaker -- Cordyceps, climate change and cosmological imbalance in the Bhutan highlands / Kinley Choki -- Local knowledge of floods and coping strategies in downstream Mahakali River, Nepal / Rashila Deshar, Dibas Shrestha, Sarina Maharjan and Madan Koirala -- Indigenous irrigation system linking people, place and the planet : the practice of jamfwi on the India-Bhutan Borderlands / Anwesha Dutta and Shailendra Yashwant -- Rajaki : an indigenous approach to commoning in Hunza, Pakistan / Zainab Khali -- Transboundary environments, militarization and minoritization : reimagining international relations in the Himalaya from Ladakh, India / Alexander Davis -- Symbiotic indigeneity and commoning in the anthropogenic Himalayas / Dan Smyer Yü -- Conclusion: Indigenous heritages and sacred earth / John Grim.