Khmer Buddhist Humanitarian Association

Khmer Buddhist Humanitarian Association
Alternative names	KBHA
Type	Religious organization
Focus areas	Cambodian community services; Buddhist and cultural life; charitable outreach
Subjects	Religion & Spiritual Life
City	Philadelphia
State / province	Pennsylvania
Country	United States
Address	2400 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148
Contact	215.336.9545; Fax: 215.336.4546
Operating status	unverified

Khmer Buddhist Humanitarian Association is a Cambodian community-services organization associated with Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple. The Jivaka Project identifies the temple as the association's headquarters. (Location Finder - The Jivaka Project)

Temple and community history

A 2014 report describes the association purchasing the former Saint Andrews Lutheran Church in 2003 for the temple and later acquiring the former synagogue across the street. It identifies Muni Ratana as both the temple's chief monk and the association's president at that time. These historical acquisitions are not a fresh verification of current property ownership. (Transcendental Renovation - Hidden City Philadelphia)

The reporting describes social services, human-rights protection, language and computer training and charitable outreach. The Jivaka account discusses the temple community's healthcare-system assistance and medical translation; it does not assign every service separately to the association. (Transcendental Renovation - Hidden City Philadelphia; Location Finder - The Jivaka Project)

Temple locations

The Philadelphia temple and its New Jersey location must not be reduced to a single street address. See Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple for the Wat record. (Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple)

Published historical contact

Address: 2400 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148
Directory contact: 215.336.9545; Fax: 215.336.4546
Historical temple website: http://preahbuddharangseytemple.blogspot.com

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