Sacred Minnesota
Cambodians Build a Temple to Heal Trauma
3/10/2021 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Fleeing genocide, Cambodians build America's largest Buddhist temple to find healing.
Thousands of Cambodians fled genocide in their home country, many arriving in Minnesota in the 1980s. Minnesota's Cambodian community found healing and belonging through building what is now the largest Buddhist temple in North America in rural Hampton, Minnesota. Throughout their temple, they encode Cambodian culture and history for future generations. Produced with Carleton College.
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Sacred Minnesota
Cambodians Build a Temple to Heal Trauma
3/10/2021 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Thousands of Cambodians fled genocide in their home country, many arriving in Minnesota in the 1980s. Minnesota's Cambodian community found healing and belonging through building what is now the largest Buddhist temple in North America in rural Hampton, Minnesota. Throughout their temple, they encode Cambodian culture and history for future generations. Produced with Carleton College.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- To escape a genocide from Cambodia and then to build the largest Cambodian temple, it would not happen if we didn't have that resiliency.
- Minnesota is one of the best States honestly, to be a Cambodian here.
- They support us to build up beautiful building, beautiful temple, beautiful culture, and beautiful community in Minnesota.
- Watt Munisotaram, as you know, it is the biggest Buddhist temple in North America.
- I think our community is truly honored to have the largest Cambodian Buddhist temple in our neighborhood.
- [Chem] We chose this place we're here because it is central, from Rochester, St. Paul, Eagan.
- [Sour] We're sitting on a 42-acre lot.
(Khmer language) - [Knetter] A lot of people maybe don't even know all the beautiful things that are here.
(Khmer language) - [Chem] We want to show to the world that we want to carry on and leave it on to the next generation to come.
- [Sok] We know that we're keeping the culture alive from generation to generation.
- [Sour] We have such traumatic memories of the genocide and able to find peace here on the ground of Hampton, Minnesota.
There's no words to describe that.
That's the sacred for me.
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