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Keeping the Faith:

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LA129584

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Keeping the Faith:

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[Article]

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Divine Protection and Flood Prevention in Modern Buddhist Ladakh

First Statement of Responsibility

Andrea Butcher

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Leiden

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Brill

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In August 2010 the Himalayan Region of Ladakh, Northwest India, experienced severe flash-flooding and mudslides, causing widespread death and destruction. The causes cited were climate change, karmic retribution, and the wrath of an agentive sentient landscape. Ladakhis construct, order and maintain the physical and moral universe through religious engagement with this landscape. The Buddhist monastic incumbents-the traditional mediators between the human world and the sentient landscape-explain supernatural retribution as the result of karmic demerit that requires ritual intervention. Social, economic, and material transformations have distorted the proper order, generating a physically and morally unfamiliar landscape. As a result, the mountain deities that act as guardians and protectors of the land below are confused and angry, sending destructive water to show their displeasure. Thus, the locally-contextualized response demonstrates the agency of the mountain gods in establishing a moral universe whereby water can give life and destroy it. In August 2010 the Himalayan Region of Ladakh, Northwest India, experienced severe flash-flooding and mudslides, causing widespread death and destruction. The causes cited were climate change, karmic retribution, and the wrath of an agentive sentient landscape. Ladakhis construct, order and maintain the physical and moral universe through religious engagement with this landscape. The Buddhist monastic incumbents-the traditional mediators between the human world and the sentient landscape-explain supernatural retribution as the result of karmic demerit that requires ritual intervention. Social, economic, and material transformations have distorted the proper order, generating a physically and morally unfamiliar landscape. As a result, the mountain deities that act as guardians and protectors of the land below are confused and angry, sending destructive water to show their displeasure. Thus, the locally-contextualized response demonstrates the agency of the mountain gods in establishing a moral universe whereby water can give life and destroy it.

Date of Publication

2013

Physical description

103-114

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

17/2

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Subject Term

chthonic landscape

Subject Term

development

Subject Term

moral universe

Subject Term

protection

Subject Term

tantric divination

Andrea Butcher

Call Number

10.1163/15685357-01702002

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275578

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