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Every Lunar New Year, my Vietnamese family places an altar by the front door, teeming with candles, oranges, plates of rich pork curry and pillowy sticky rice. The tradition is part of Tết Nguyên Đán (Feast of the First Morning of the First Day), when we invite our ancestors into our homes so they might hear our prayers. My parents are Vietnamese refugees, but I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. While I grew up practicing our cultural rituals, I never fully grasped the reasons behind them. For as long as I can remember, Tết celebrations included a visit to my grandparents’ Buddhist temple in Grand Prairie, Texas, where monks ceremonially placed photos of my great-grandparents alongside the rest of the community’s ancestors. We admired the vibrant flowers and lanterns strung up in the temple courtyard and the people bustling about wearing traditional

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