Tep Vong

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Samdech Preah Agga Maha Sangharajadhipati Tep Vong (Khmer: សម្ដេចព្រះអគ្គមហាសង្ឃរាជាធិបតី ទេព វង្ស; 12 January 1932 – 26 February 2024) was a Cambodian Buddhist monk who served as the Great Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia until his death in 2024. He was well known for his role in re-establishing the Cambodian monkhood after the Khmer Rouge era and for his links to leading political leaders after the 1980s including prime minister Hun Sen. Tep Vong was born at Trapeang Chork village in the Chreav commune of the Siem Reap municipality, and at the age of 10 went to study at Wat Reach Bo in the provincial capital of Siem Reap. At the age of 16, he was ordained as a novice at the same temple but, because of family duties, only assumed robes for nine months. His preceptor was the abbot of the temple – the Venerable Hing Mao. At the age of 21, he was ordained as a bhikkhu at the temple by the same preceptor. He was made kru sotr – the second-ranking monk of the temple in 1956. Like almost all Cambodian monks, Tep Vong was forced to leave the monkhood during the 1975-9 Pol Pot regime. During those years, he was able to flee to Vietnam according to some sources, but this claim is subject to debate. Later, during the Vietnamese-sponsored People's Revolutionary Tribunal from 15 to 20 July 1979, Tep Vong accused Pol Pot himself of executing 57 monks, including three of his own nephews.