Tep Vong, the senior monk who led Cambodia's Buddhist community and played a crucial role in its revival after the Khmer Rouge genocide, has died at the age of 93 after battling illness. In 2006, he ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — (AP) — 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 ...

Tep Vong, who helped revive Buddhism after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, had close and long-standing connections to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s ...

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 ...

Although the Minnesota Cambodian Buddhist Society was established in 1982, it was not until 2007 that members consecrated a temple on 40 acres of their own land. Significant Cambodian immigration 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...