Transforming from a 12-year-old farmer boy into a monastic student and then a novice monk is my unforgettable memory. I have been interested in writing about Buddhism in Cambodia since I enrolled in a ...

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PHNOM PENH, CambodiaPHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s Buddhist community and was vital for its rejuvenation in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 70s ...

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Buddhist monk Sao Chanthol will cast his ballot for Cambodia's ruling party on Sunday, but the vote has exposed a deep fracture in the 60,000-strong clergy with some planning to stay home to protest a ...

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 ...