Over 600 Laotian Buddhists Honor Deceased Monk in Nashville

by Danny Fisher

“Monks gather around the casket of the Venerable Somdy Soumano Soupanya on Sunday, the end of more than 30 days of mourning for the beloved spiritual leader.” Photo by John Partipilo for The Tennessean.
The Tennessean reports that “more than 600 of Nashville’s Lao Buddhists gathered on Sunday to pay their final respects to a beloved spiritual leader and one of the Southeast’s leading Buddhist monks”: the Venerable Somdy Soumano Soupanya. Take a look.

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