On Sunday morning, the group took a trip out to Silver Spring to visit a Cambodian temple. When we arrived, our contact, Tun, had to read his part in a 100 day memorial service for a man who was a important member of the temple. The Buddhists have numerous services after one dies to encourage a positive afterlife: as a human being, a demigod, or a god, not an animal or a dweller of hell. 

http://www.cambodian-buddhist.org/

After the service we went inside the temple, where Tun, a former adviser to the president of Cambodia in the 1960's before the khmer rouge, explained the memorial service, the concept of karma, and he taught students the 5 precepts for happiness( no killing, no lying, no intoxicants, no sexual misconduct, and no stealing) and gave a brief description of the murals in the temple, which depicted the life of Buddha, who left his family and his material life of comfort to find enlightenment and spread Buddhism. 

We then went down to the basement of the temple, where students were stretching for their traditional Cambodian dance. Unfortunately, we did not have time to participate.