Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia Walker Trent
Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia Walker Trent A unique Buddhist tradition, accessible in English for the first time--translations of forty-five Cambodian Dharma songs, with…
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Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia Walker Trent
A unique Buddhist tradition, accessible in English for the first time--translations of forty-five Cambodian Dharma songs, with contextualizing essays and a link to audio of stunning vocal performances.Until Nirvana's Time is the first collection of traditional Cambodian Buddhist literature available in English, presenting original translations of forty-five poems. Their soaring melodies have inspired Cambodians for generations, whether in daily prayers or all-night rituals.Trained in oral and written lineages in Cambodia, Walker presents a carefully curated range of poems from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries that capture the transformative wisdom of the Khmer Introduced, translated, and contextualized by scholar and vocalist Trent Walker, the Dharma songs in this book reveal a distinctive Southeast Asian genre of devotion, mourning, and contemplation.