Bokanika Kan’s maternal grandmother, Sieng Torng, at Wat Khemara Ratanaram, a Cambodian Buddhist temple in San Diego, CA, c. 1980. Bokanika is uncertain if her grandmother became a nun in the refugee camps or after arriving in the U.S. Because Sieng Torng took care of Bokanika and her sister, she did not live at the temple, but went there everyday.
