Dada is a Vietnamese with Cambodia ancestry, the son of very poor parents. He became a monk at a Cambodian temple in Soc Trang province when he was only seven years old. At about the age of 13-14, he and a fellow monk sneaked out of the pagoda and went to the village where his fellow monk came from.
Dada is a Cambodian-Vietnamese. The turn of events has changed him to a Vietnamese-Cambodian. His story involved a Vietnamese god called Nguyễn Trung Trực (A national hero).
Dada’s senior, a monk at a Cambodian monastery in the west of South Vietnam had told one of Old_Guru’s disciples about an exorcism performed by Chimdada on behalf of a General’s son from ThaiLand. The event stirred up much excitement that had people (including Thai policemen) gathered to the place to watch Dada pour a basket of boiling water over the possessed person, thus delivering him from the evil spirit.
Cambodian religious beliefs originated from Brahmanism which worships three supreme Deities: Brahma (Supreme God), Vishnu (Deity of preservation), and Shiva (Deity of destruction). Later on Mahayana Buddhism spread to Cambodia and shortly after, it was replaced by Theravada Buddhism.