Trent Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trent Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trent |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2285-1979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indic-Siamese Bitexts and Ayutthaya Scribal Culture: Exposition and Exegesis in Three Kham Luang Manuscripts
This article studies paratextual scribal features from the oldest leporello manuscripts of three Thai Buddhist poems composed for and by the royal court of Ayutthaya: the Pali-Siamese Nanthopananthasut kham luang and Mahachat kham luang along with the Sanskrit-Siamese Supritithammarachachadok kham luang . The manuscripts date from the early eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries and are each composed in a special bilingual format known as the I…
A Unified Transliteration System for Mainland Southeast Asian Scripts Principles, Inventory, and Examples
A Unified Transliteration System for Mainland Southeast Asian Scripts: Guides and Tables
Inscriptions of Indradevī, Chulalak, and Sujātā: Three Buddhist Queens from Cambodia and Thailand
Material Evidence for Ritual Chant in Early Modern Siam: Leporello Manuscripts as Affordances for Deathbed Rites
This article examines material evidence for deathbed chanting in nineteenth-century Siam (today's central and southern Thailand), focusing on folded-paper leporello manuscripts used for group chanting by monks on behalf of the terminally ill.As physical objects, these Khom-script leporellos convey much more than the Pali texts they transmit.Their paratextual dimensions, including colophons, ritual sequences, and chanting instructions, confirm tha…
Living Phonologies: Khmer Pronunciations of Pali at the Nexus of Writing and Orality
By offering the first detailed portrait of how a particular local system for Pali pronunciation functions, this article aims to renew our appreciation of the complex interaction between chanted sounds and written words in Buddhist cultures. Seated at the fulcrum between orality and writing, the diverse phonologies of Pali are constantly evolving sites of debate over the nature of the voice of the Buddha and his teaching in Theravāda contexts. To …
A Sino‒Thai Blue-and-White Porcelain at Umma
A blue-and-white porcelain lidded bottle housed at the University of Michigan Museum of Art stands as a significant representative from a collection of late 19th-century tea sets crafted in China for the Siamese court. This brief examination delves into crucial visual cues, such as the bottle’s distinct ringed-neck shape, incorporation of typical Chinese auspicious motifs, depictions of Siamese coinage and royal monograms from the Rama V period i…
Liquid Language: The Art of Bitextual Sermons in Middle Cambodia
Khmer Nuns and Filial Debts: Buddhist Intersections in Contemporary Cambodia
Cambodian Buddhist nuns, including the white-robed ṭūn jī, occupy a fraught confluence of competing cultural and religious narratives. Chief among these narratives is gratitude to mothers, among the most powerful structuring forces in Khmer Buddhist culture. By ordaining as nuns, Khmer women break no explicit moral rules, but violate implicit conventions to bear children for their husbands and care for their parents in old age. To explore how thi…
Indic-Vernacular Bitexts from Thailand: Bilingual Modes of Philology, Exegetics, Homiletics, and Poetry, 1450-1850
In the late first and early second millennia, mainland Southeast Asians created sophisticated techniques to accurately and efficiently render Pali into local vernaculars, including Burmese, Khmer, Khün, Lanna, Lao, Lü, Mon, and Siamese. These techniques for vernacular reading, parallel to approaches for reading Latin in medieval Europe and Literary Sinitic in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, led to the development of bitexts that contained a mix of Pal…
A Chant Has Nine Lives
The story of how Theravada Buddhism came to be adopted among urban Kinh communities in southern Vietnam challenges how scholars narrate Buddhist history. Focusing on the transformation of a single liturgical text—a chant, originally in the Pali language, to invite a monk to give a sermon—as it circulates across Thailand and Cambodia before its eventual translation from Khmer into Vietnamese in the mid-twentieth century, this essay reveals how cha…
Emotions are understood from biological motion across remote cultures
Patterns of bodily movement can be used to signal a wide variety of information, including emotional states. Are these signals reliant on culturally learned cues or are they intelligible across individuals lacking exposure to a common culture? To find out, we traveled to a remote Kreung village in Ratanakiri, Cambodia. First, we recorded Kreung portrayals of 5 emotions through bodily movement. These videos were later shown to American participant…
How Sophea Lost Her Sight
Sophea placed her warm hands on my face, feeling the contours of my nose and cheeks as if to remember me. This was my first time meeting this revered teacher of Cambodian Dharma songs, whose unrele
The Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton
Indic-Vernacular Bitexts from Thailand: Bilingual Modes of Philology, Exegetics, Homiletics, and Poetry, 1450-1850
In the late first and early second millennia, mainland Southeast Asians created sophisticated techniques to accurately and efficiently render Pali into local vernaculars, including Burmese, Khmer, Khün, Lanna, Lao, Lü, Mon, and Siamese. These techniques for vernacular reading, parallel to approaches for reading Latin in medieval Europe and Literary Sinitic in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, led to the development of bitexts that contained a mix of Pal…
The Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton
How Sophea Lost Her Sight
Sophea placed her warm hands on my face, feeling the contours of my nose and cheeks as if to remember me. This was my first time meeting this revered teacher of Cambodian Dharma songs, whose unrele
Emotions are understood from biological motion across remote cultures
Patterns of bodily movement can be used to signal a wide variety of information, including emotional states. Are these signals reliant on culturally learned cues or are they intelligible across individuals lacking exposure to a common culture? To find out, we traveled to a remote Kreung village in Ratanakiri, Cambodia. First, we recorded Kreung portrayals of 5 emotions through bodily movement. These videos were later shown to American participant…
A Chant Has Nine Lives
The story of how Theravada Buddhism came to be adopted among urban Kinh communities in southern Vietnam challenges how scholars narrate Buddhist history. Focusing on the transformation of a single liturgical text—a chant, originally in the Pali language, to invite a monk to give a sermon—as it circulates across Thailand and Cambodia before its eventual translation from Khmer into Vietnamese in the mid-twentieth century, this essay reveals how cha…
Indic-Vernacular Bitexts from Thailand: Bilingual Modes of Philology, Exegetics, Homiletics, and Poetry, 1450-1850
In the late first and early second millennia, mainland Southeast Asians created sophisticated techniques to accurately and efficiently render Pali into local vernaculars, including Burmese, Khmer, Khün, Lanna, Lao, Lü, Mon, and Siamese. These techniques for vernacular reading, parallel to approaches for reading Latin in medieval Europe and Literary Sinitic in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, led to the development of bitexts that contained a mix of Pal…
Liquid Language: The Art of Bitextual Sermons in Middle Cambodia
Khmer Nuns and Filial Debts: Buddhist Intersections in Contemporary Cambodia
Cambodian Buddhist nuns, including the white-robed ṭūn jī, occupy a fraught confluence of competing cultural and religious narratives. Chief among these narratives is gratitude to mothers, among the most powerful structuring forces in Khmer Buddhist culture. By ordaining as nuns, Khmer women break no explicit moral rules, but violate implicit conventions to bear children for their husbands and care for their parents in old age. To explore how thi…
Material Evidence for Ritual Chant in Early Modern Siam: Leporello Manuscripts as Affordances for Deathbed Rites
This article examines material evidence for deathbed chanting in nineteenth-century Siam (today's central and southern Thailand), focusing on folded-paper leporello manuscripts used for group chanting by monks on behalf of the terminally ill.As physical objects, these Khom-script leporellos convey much more than the Pali texts they transmit.Their paratextual dimensions, including colophons, ritual sequences, and chanting instructions, confirm tha…
Living Phonologies: Khmer Pronunciations of Pali at the Nexus of Writing and Orality
By offering the first detailed portrait of how a particular local system for Pali pronunciation functions, this article aims to renew our appreciation of the complex interaction between chanted sounds and written words in Buddhist cultures. Seated at the fulcrum between orality and writing, the diverse phonologies of Pali are constantly evolving sites of debate over the nature of the voice of the Buddha and his teaching in Theravāda contexts. To …
A Sino‒Thai Blue-and-White Porcelain at Umma
A blue-and-white porcelain lidded bottle housed at the University of Michigan Museum of Art stands as a significant representative from a collection of late 19th-century tea sets crafted in China for the Siamese court. This brief examination delves into crucial visual cues, such as the bottle’s distinct ringed-neck shape, incorporation of typical Chinese auspicious motifs, depictions of Siamese coinage and royal monograms from the Rama V period i…
Inscriptions of Indradevī, Chulalak, and Sujātā: Three Buddhist Queens from Cambodia and Thailand
Indic-Siamese Bitexts and Ayutthaya Scribal Culture: Exposition and Exegesis in Three Kham Luang Manuscripts
This article studies paratextual scribal features from the oldest leporello manuscripts of three Thai Buddhist poems composed for and by the royal court of Ayutthaya: the Pali-Siamese Nanthopananthasut kham luang and Mahachat kham luang along with the Sanskrit-Siamese Supritithammarachachadok kham luang . The manuscripts date from the early eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries and are each composed in a special bilingual format known as the I…
A Unified Transliteration System for Mainland Southeast Asian Scripts Principles, Inventory, and Examples
A Unified Transliteration System for Mainland Southeast Asian Scripts: Guides and Tables
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (7 works) · Buddhism (6 works) · Cambodian History and Society (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)