Preah Botumthera Som

Preah Botumthera Som was born in 1852 in Kamprau, in Prey Veng province, the sixth of seven boys. A novice in 1867 at his village pagoda, he left the monkhood to help on the family farm, then became a monk again in 1873, taught himself to compose verse, which he wrote on palm leaves, and became abbot of the pagoda. He also wrote a novel in 1911. The French manuscripts call him Brah Padumatthera, and the BnF Bhikkhu Som. He died in 1932, at the age of eighty.

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