Kevin Trainor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Trainor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Trainor |
| SIGNATURE | TRAINOR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Buddha's Tooth
The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic mean…
Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
The buddha's "cave of the midday rest" and buddhist relic practices in sri lanka
Pars pro toto
This article examines some of the implications of cross-cultural and cross-tradition comparison in the study of religion as they emerge from an analysis of religious practices associated with relics. It also identifies some key comparative themes highlighted in the articles that comprise this special issue on relic practices
Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism
The Religious World of Kīrti Śrī
Buddhist Saints in India
In the Eye of the Beholder
Journal Article In the Eye of the Beholder: Nonattachment and the Body in Subhā's Verse (Therīgāthā 71) Get access Kevin Trainor Kevin Trainor Kevin Trainor is Assistant Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont, 481 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05405–0218 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, I…
Furta Sacra. Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages
When Is a Theft Not a Theft? Relic Theft and the Cult of the Buddha's Relics in Sri Lanka
This essay examines the phenomenon of relic theft in the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Sri Lanka. Having noted the relative paucity of scholarship on this topic, the essay first examines the canonical warrant for the practice of relic veneration in the Mahāparinibbāna-sutta, and identifies a fundamental tension that the cult of veneration poses for the tradition. Relics, as valued material objects subject to human manipulation and possession, w…
Pars pro toto
This article examines some of the implications of cross-cultural and cross-tradition comparison in the study of religion as they emerge from an analysis of religious practices associated with relics. It also identifies some key comparative themes highlighted in the articles that comprise this special issue on relic practices
The buddha's "cave of the midday rest" and buddhist relic practices in sri lanka
When Is a Theft Not a Theft? Relic Theft and the Cult of the Buddha's Relics in Sri Lanka
This essay examines the phenomenon of relic theft in the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Sri Lanka. Having noted the relative paucity of scholarship on this topic, the essay first examines the canonical warrant for the practice of relic veneration in the Mahāparinibbāna-sutta, and identifies a fundamental tension that the cult of veneration poses for the tradition. Relics, as valued material objects subject to human manipulation and possession, w…
In the Eye of the Beholder
Journal Article In the Eye of the Beholder: Nonattachment and the Body in Subhā's Verse (Therīgāthā 71) Get access Kevin Trainor Kevin Trainor Kevin Trainor is Assistant Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont, 481 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05405–0218 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, I…
Furta Sacra. Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages
Buddhist Saints in India
The Religious World of Kīrti Śrī
Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism
Pars pro toto
This article examines some of the implications of cross-cultural and cross-tradition comparison in the study of religion as they emerge from an analysis of religious practices associated with relics. It also identifies some key comparative themes highlighted in the articles that comprise this special issue on relic practices
The buddha's "cave of the midday rest" and buddhist relic practices in sri lanka
The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic mean…
Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
The Buddha's Tooth
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