Novice monk in Phnom Penh
· Vat Botum Vaddei, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
As a child, Sâr lived in Phnom Penh and spent 18 months as a novice monk at Vat Botum Vaddei monastery. The article gives his age as six rather than a calendar date; 1931 is inferred from its stated 1925 birth date.