This study is about the religious and cultural legacy of exile among Buddhist Vietnamese in Orange County, California and its cultural heart, the enclave known as Little Saigon. I explore how the Vietnamese Orange County imaginary has been constituted by public and private expressions of memory and history, communicated across miles and generations in homes, temples, and other forums. While memories of the past can refer to specific events, the imaginative reconstructions that I refer to here tend to take two general forms: nostalgic tropes of a mythic pre-1975 or even pre-modern Vietnam and, more powerfully perhaps, violent images of post-1975 war and flight, and of oppression under communism in Vietnam. How, I ask, does the new landscape of Little Saigon, grown from Orange County farm fields, reflect Vietnamese refugees' concerns about these pasts and their resolve to remember, even at some cost to themselves? How do the young and the-not-so-young make their own pasts relevant in a new place? More specifically, I examine the rooting of a local Vietnamese diasporic imaginary in religious practice. Practitioners of Vietnamese religions, centered as they are on place and home and family, remember and reflect upon homeland and the events that separated them from that homeland as a part of their daily practice. How, I ask, have they and their religious practices been transformed by the experience of exile and life in a new place? Orange County Vietnamese can choose to join Vietnam's own religious fluidity and diversity with the California's religious and social possibilities---market-like in their abundance and accessibility. California's own cultural discourses---religious, commercial, ethnic---present enticing alternatives to Vietnamese Americans for explorations in new religious paths, for self improvement and the refashioning of identity---as Vietnamese, as American, as something else again---and for embracing, resolving, or leaving behind the complex and often troubling endowments of an old homeland, war, and exile.