At Wat Khmer, a Buddhist temple located on the southern outskirts of Lodi, volunteers have spent the past week cleaning, decorating and prepping fresh monk robes.

he Khmer Rouge genocide erased Khmer culture in Cambodia in the 1970s. As a result, some Khmer youth in America are now disconnected from their heritage. Venerable Prenz Sa-Ngoun is a twenty-year-old ...

Buddhist leaders and representatives from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos joined a recent summit in the Cambodian capital Phnom ...

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In November 2022, President Joe Biden visited Cambodia to attend the 40th and 41st Summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Related Summits, joined by leaders from 28 other ...

Tep Vong, Great Supreme Patriarch, prays during the Independence Day celebration in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014. Venerable Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s Sangha -- its ...

2,569 Buddhist monks joined nuns and residents of the city to carry banners and Cambodian flags in a 1.8 miles (3 kilometer) peace march from Wat Phnom to the Independence Monument in central Phnom ...

The first time I looked up the Cambodian Buddhist temple on Google Maps, I thought it was small. So unassuming, so unspectacular that I told my friend, whom I had invited to visit it with me, not to ...

DO DONTREI, Cambodia – More than 100 people have attended a Buddhist ceremony honoring the dead in a freshly uncovered Khmer Rouge mass grave in rural Cambodia. Buddhist monks led prayers and people ...

Maha Ghosananda, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated monk who rebuilt Buddhism in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, died Monday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., said Christina ...