Author · Cambodia
Nhok Them
Died in 1974
Nhok Them was born in 1903 in Battambang, the son of a goldsmith. Entrusted at the age of ten to his grandfather, a monk at the Pothivieul pagoda, he studied Khmer and Buddhism there, left in 1918 for Bangkok to complete his religious training and obtained his Pali diplomas in 1929. Back in 1930, he worked on the translation of the Tripitaka into Khmer, left the monkhood in 1936, then taught at the Sisowath lycée from 1946. He left some twenty works on Buddhism, Pali and literature.
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- Novelកុលាបប៉ៃលិនNhok Them · 1943not translated into EnglishLiterature