Trent Walker

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies at Stanford University, Trent Walker is a specialist in Southeast Asian Buddhist music and literature. He is currently working on an intellectual history of translation in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Dr. Walker is the author of Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia and a co-editor of Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and served as Director of Preservation and Lead Scholar for the Khmer Manuscript Heritage Project, an initiative of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center to digitize over 1.5 million pages of palm-leaf manuscripts. Trained in Cambodian chant since 2005, he is a regular speaker and performer at temples, retreat centers, and universities. www.trentwalker.org