SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- San Francisco resident, philanthropist and Cambodian advocate Lyna Lam has launched A Khmer Buddhist Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ...

The largest surviving collection of Cambodian Buddhist palm leaf manuscripts is digitized and made available free to the global community. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A Khmer ...

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.

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 ...

OAKLAND — Buddhists are perceived as being above church politics. But a bitter five-year battle over an Oakland temple pitted two Cambodian Buddhist organizations against each other and gave rise to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Cambodia, the wheels of justice are slowly grinding closer toward the leadership of the Khmer Rouge. Over the course of four bloody years in the 1970s, Pol Pot and his followers murdered somewhere ...

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 ...

CHELMSFORD — The preserved body of the Venerable Maha Ghosananda, an internationally acclaimed Buddhist monk and friend to the Dalai Lama and the late Pope John Paul II, now is the object of a global ...

Since the late 13th century, when Theravada Buddhism became the state-sanctioned religion in Cambodia, the Buddhist wats, or temples, served as the religious, cultural and educational centers of ...