31st Anniversary Celebration of Wat Greensboro Buddhist Center

We celebrated the 31st Anniversary Celebration of Wat Greensboro Buddhist Center in Greensboro, North Carolina last Sunday, March 19, 2017.  Back in the 80s, we had a very small Buddhist community in this area. We fled from our war-torn countries, some immigrated from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. The Thai community was small in the 80s.…

1st Sart Festival (Kanben) or Merit Making Transference at Wat Greensboro

We celebrated 1st Sart Thai Festival at Wat Greensboro on Sunday, September 18, 2016. The temple called it small Sart day, and the big Sart day will be in 2 weeks. Sart day is a Buddhist tradition where it's a memorial day for the dead, it is a time to remember dead relatives and merit…

Wat Lao Buddhavong July 2nd and 3rd, 2016

This is our tenth year attending the July 4th celebration at Wat Lao Buddhavong in Catlett Virginia. This year's celebration was held on Saturday, July 2nd, and Sunday, July 3rd. Every year I look forward to the event but this year I was so burnt out from work that I got sick on my vacation. This…

The Buddhist Lent Day 2016

Sunday, July 17, 2016 was the Buddhist Lent Day at our local temple Wat Greensboro. On the day we also observed Asalha Puja Day, the day of the announcement of the first sermon of the Buddha also known as the Sangha Day. The Buddhist Lent Day is the annual three-month Rains Retreat known in Laos…

Songkran Festival 2016 at Wat Greensboro

We celebrated a Southeast Asian New Year at our local temple Wat Greensboro last Sunday April 17, 2016. The celebration was later than the actual New Year celebration which was celebrated on April 13 to the 15th in Southeast Asia, it's celebrated for 3 days. Cups of sand were prepared for Jaydee Cide or sand…

Carolina Balloon Festival

The annual Carolina Balloon Festival in our area was held on October 17th this year and the weather was fairly nice. I spent most of my time stood in food line, lesson learnt to eat before I go or pack a snack. I took this image with my cell phone, now I understood the saying…

Songkran Festival 2015 at Wat Greensboro

We celebrated a Southeast Asian New Year at our local temple Wat Greensboro last Sunday April 19, 2015. It rained in our area, traveling to the temple was difficult and by the time we got there it amazed us that there's not a drop of rain and the temple is only 1 hour and 30…

Evening Temple, Lai Heur Fai Nam and Loy Krathong Festival

One of the most memorable events I attended was attending Wat Lang or evening temple and Lai Heur Fai Nam or Loy Krathong Festival at our local temple Wat Greensboro. I used to think that Lai Heur Fai Nam and Loy Krathong Festival were the same event, and that Lai Heur Fai Nam is a…

Halloween 2014

Every year our neighborhood transforms into Halloween town, but this year it started to drizzle, then rain so we had less tricker treaters than normal. Lee dressed as a skeleton this year, the handcuffs was a bit confusing to me. She did her own makeup. I don't think the orange rope was a part of…

Songkran Festival 2014 at Wat Greensboro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8RyIyexFw We celebrated a Southeast Asian New Year at our local temple Wat Greensboro on Sunday April 13, 2014. We had a good turnout and the weather was exceptionally nice, it was in the 80s. Songkran is one of the biggest events at our temple. It is the time of the year for a new…

New Year 2014 at Wat Greensboro

I hope everyone had a good New Year celebration, like every year we went to our local temple Wat Greensboro on New Year’s Day. The service was held in the Buddha room. It's low lighting, so photographing was a challenge. Lee and my oldest sister gave morning alms. We offered meal to Phramaha Somsak after…

NC Hmong New Year 2013-2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRAsGqszC4Y I went to the NC Hmong New Year on Friday, it was cold and I ended up going by myself. It's not as much fun being at an event that I can't understand the language, and had no one to talk to. The good part was that I get to stay as long as…