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Grieving for the buddha : Three Cambodian songs / Trent Walker.

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Material type: ArticleArticlePublication details: 2021.Description: 11 pagesSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3 WAL
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Contents:
1- The Buddha's last words 2- The Buddha's passing away 3- Mourning the Buddha's demise
Summary: These three poems, translated from Khmer, are drawn from Trent Walker’s forthcoming book, Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia (Shambhala Publications, Autumn 2022). Trent Walker, the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, will join with Chenxing Han (author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists and a forthcoming memoir, both published by North Atlantic Books), to lead a retreat on February 18–21, 2022 at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. The four-day program, “Story and Song: Learning and Living with Buddhist Chant,” centers the texts and melodies of the Cambodian Dharma song tradition as tools for engaging Buddhist narratives and teachings

1- The Buddha's last words
2- The Buddha's passing away
3- Mourning the Buddha's demise

These three poems, translated from Khmer, are drawn from
Trent Walker’s forthcoming book, Until Nirvana’s Time:
Buddhist Songs from Cambodia (Shambhala Publications,
Autumn 2022). Trent Walker, the Ho Center for Buddhist
Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, will join
with Chenxing Han (author of Be the Refuge: Raising the
Voices of Asian American Buddhists and a forthcoming
memoir, both published by North Atlantic Books), to lead a
retreat on February 18–21, 2022 at the Barre Center for
Buddhist Studies. The four-day program, “Story and Song:
Learning and Living with Buddhist Chant,” centers the texts
and melodies of the Cambodian Dharma song tradition as
tools for engaging Buddhist narratives and teachings

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