Phnom Penh Post - Monks and wats on increase
CAMBODIA has 50,081 monk and 3,685 pagodas, according to the Minister of Cults
and Religion, Chea Savoeun, who was quoted by the Business News
newspaper.
Savoeun disclosed this during a session with the National
Assembly commission on education, culture, cults and religion, headed by Mom
Chum Huy.
He said the pagodas were established and the monks trained in
the revival of Budd-hism since the 1979 ouster of the Khmer Rouge which had
banned the religion.
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