The Venerable Mey Ros, age 86, abbot of Wat Dhammikaram in Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, passed away on Sunday 6th Waxing Moon of Maggasira, B.E.2554, December 12, A.D.2010 Year of the Tiger.
His Body will be transported to Wat Dhammikaram on Thursday Dec. 16, 2010 for the Buddhist monks, his family, and devotees to conduct daily chanting for Him. Then on Sunday Dec. 19, a procession of His Body to the Carpenter Jenks Funeral Home in West Warwick, Rhode Island for religious cremation.
Wat Dhammikaram is the first Khmer Buddhist temple to establish in the United States by His Holiness Samdech Maha Ghosanda and its first abbot in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Today Providence Khmer community has three Buddhist temples.
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