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Mr. Son Son visits Wat Phum Thom and Khmer Communities Surrounding To Talk About Preserving Khmer Culture
Image: Binh Phuoc Gov. News
By Don Lam
June 24, 2010
I have received news from our grass root community layman involved in our Khmer literacy project that Mr. Son Son of the Khmer Minority's representative stationed in the nation's capital-Hanoi- had paid our small town a visit last month.
His excellency hosted a banquet for the various Khmer communities in the province and an ostentatious cultural shows were performed at our Wat Phum Thom temple welcoming Mr. Son.
Legacy of Ven. Ly Sang; The creation of Khmer language class in Phum Thom Temple
13 Years ago, late venerable Ly Sang came to Phum Thom and established the Wat Phum Thom temple, resided there as the abbot and later went on to try to create the first Khmer language classroom in the province. This was in Binh Phuoc province, South Vietnam. Although Lok Ta (Khmer word for revered monk) Ly Sang passed away without seeing the fruit of his labor, his legacy and great devotion to the preservation of Khmer language lived on. Today, thanks to his work, Wat (temple) Phum Thom host a thriving number of students attending its Khmer language class each evening. Sometimes the small temple class would be completely packed, with all the rows occupied and every spaces and chairs crunched in so closely together that one could not escape a vivid conjuring of a huge centipede moving with its long stretch body of rows and all the students as its great many limbs .
