Wat
Chùa Hoa Sơn (Long Khánh)
Chùa Hoa Sơn (Chùa Kiri Buppharam) is a Khmer Theravada Buddhist Wat in Long Khánh ward, Đồng Nai province, Vietnam, about 45 km (28 mi) from Ho Chi Minh City.[1][2]
History
Before 1968, Hòa thượng (Most Venerable) Thạch Phan, from Trà Vinh, came to the Khmer community that had moved to Long Khánh from the Mekong Delta. A lay family gave him a plot of about 2,500 m2 (0.6 acre), about 800 m (half a mile) from National Route 1A, opposite Hòa Bình park in what was Phú Bình ward. Building began in 1968, with a lay committee of ten Khmer members and the labor of the community, in wood, metal sheeting and brick.[1]
Thạch Phan died at the end of 1969. Through the war years and after, many Khmer families left, and the Wat long had no abbot. A monk from Sóc Trăng, Kim Sang, stayed for a time in the early 1980s, and from 1985 to 1995 no monks lived there; a few lay followers kept it clean and lit incense. From 1995 Khmer families from the Mekong Delta again settled in Long Khánh, and young monks from Trà Vinh and Sóc Trăng spent the rains retreat there. In 2007, at the request of Hòa thượng Danh Lung, Venerable Thạch Sa Huynh took charge of the Wat and later became its abbot. That year it also took the name Hoa Sơn Tự.[1]
Religious life
As of 2022, the Wat was a spiritual center for Khmer workers and families who had moved to the southeast for work. It held the Kathina robe offering, the beginning and end of the Vassa rains retreat and Vesak each year. The Kathina drew nearly 1,000 lay followers.[1] In September 2025, for Sen Dolta, the festival for ancestors, a delegation of the Đồng Nai Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs visited the Wat with gifts for its monks and community.[2]