Despite official bans, public criticism and concern over pollution, plastics are widely used in
Buddhist material culture in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim. Using the framework of the …

This introduction to the special issue of Plastic Asia emphasises the ambiguous and
unsettling materiality of plastics. It describes how in Asian contexts, the relationships …

AT the Origins Centre, a Buddhist centre in the Southwest of Western Australia, a plastic
Earth hangs above the central shrine. Displaying a seamless composite of NASA satellite …

This article contributes to the study of material religion a discussion on the notion of
remediation, by exploring the affordances of the waxwork as a new medium in the Tibetan …

This thesis takes the form of a hypertext, interactive game designed to be a thought
experiment on cultural memory in the Anthropocene. It is a game, a form of research …

Efficacious, powerful, potent, agent/agency/agentic, sacred—these are central to our
vernacular when we talk about material religion. This subfield and method has become the …