From life-sized statues celebrating the life of Buddha to authentic Cambodian foods and cultural performances, Cambodian New Year celebration is back this weekend in Stockton. Festivities will be in ...
The Stockton Cambodian community will celebrate one of its annual significant holidays this weekend. The Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple, located at 3732 E. Carpenter Rd. in Stockton, will host the ...
Cambodian Buddhist monks march on a street as they organize a ceremony to offer prayers to the remains of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives in battle, with Thai troops along the disputed border ...
In the Cambodian tradition, people invite monks to their homes to bless the spirits of their family members. Because there tend to be fewer monks in American communities, the tradition evolved into a ...
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After escaping the Khmer Rouge with my siblings, I learned who had been protecting me all along. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.” The first time I heard those words, I ...
For Victor Thach, a 63-year-old San Jose resident who escaped the instability of post-war Vietnam and landed in the United States in 1986, a Buddhist temple on San Jose’s Sunset Court represents a ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Cambodia on Friday held a religious ceremony to honor soldiers killed in recent border clashes with Thai forces and to pray for peace. They marched ...