Cambodian Buddhist-Students Center
Smile when we know that we are providing good services for the society. Smile when we are doing good actions for ourselves and others. Here, Smile Magazine would like to record and to bring you the great social events conducting in Cambodian Buddhist-Students Center (Khemarama Temple) by Cambodian Buddhist Student-monks in Srilanka and lay people from Cambodia on 25
th, May 2011. This event can be called historical event done by Cambodian Buddhist Student-Monks in Srilanka. The Dream and imagination really become true one day if we keep going our effort. As we have known Buddhism has existed in
Cambodia since at least the 5th century CE, with some sources placing its origin as early as the 3rd century BCE.
Theravada Buddhism has been the Cambodian state religion since the 13th century CE (excepting the Khmer Rouge period), and is currently estimated to be the faith of 95% of the population. The history of Buddhism in
Cambodia spans nearly two thousand years, across a number of successive kingdoms and empires. Buddhism entered Cambodia through two different streams. The earliest forms of Buddhism, along with Hindu influences, entered the Funan kingdom with Hindu merchants. In later history, a second stream of Buddhism entered Khmer culture during the Angkor empire when Cambodia absorbed the various Buddhist traditions of the
Mon kingdoms of
Dvaravati and
Haripunchai.
