Andrew Dade is a doctoral student in the Department for Study of Religion, the Robert H. N. Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies, and the Collaborative Program in South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. He is interested in the work of sound, silence, and recitation for Buddhist tradition in particular, and many other traditions, comparatively. His ethnographic research centers recitations of the Pali canon in Myanmar (Burma) where the Abhidhamma, a Buddhist phenomenological analysis, receives considerable lay and monastic attention.