The rural setting of the Greensboro Buddhist Center enhances its serene atmosphere despite its location in one of North Carolina's largest metropolises.  Organized in 1985 by the Khmer Aid Group of the Triad with help from Lutheran Family Services and a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the center is located on ten acres that includes two houses.  The temple functions as a religious, cultural, and educational center for over 500 families from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.  The congregation is made up primarily of Lao and Cambodian refugees and their families. 

An annual calendar of Buddhist ceremonies are held at the Greensboro Center, including celebrations of Buddha's Birthday, Southeast Asian New Years, and Kathin, when the monks are offered new robes. And each week the Greensboro Buddhist Center holds a service beginning at nine o'clock.  Up to two hundred regular members attend and stay for lunch, dharma lessons, and recreation.  The temple holds larger monthly services in Thai, Lao, or Cambodian traditions that attract four or five hundred devotees.  Led by the three resident monks, the services include chanting of the sutras and offerings of food to the monks.  Although the monks (including the temple's Thai-born spiritual leader Phramaha Somsak Sambimb) speak English, the services are held in Lao or Khmer.  Translators are available for these languages and the center also offers language classes.  During the week, Somsak and the other the monks offer classes in Buddhism and lecture at local schools.  The temple also sponsors two dance groups as well as a summer camp for children.  Members of all ages enjoy the lake, volleyball court, and gardens located behind the worship site.  In these and other ways, the Greensboro temple provides a religious, social, and cultural center for refugee and immigrant families in the surrounding area.