The decision, concluded by the Standing Committee of the Executive Council, includes a two-year ban on preaching in any form and presiding over events that gather large crowds at Thien Ton Phat Quang ...

On June 11, 1963, the world witnessed a moment of profound courage and sacrifice as Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire to protest the policies of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. To understand Quang Duc’s story it is essential to know the story of Ngo Dinh Diem ...

Thich Tri Quang was a Buddhist monk who led waves of protests that brought down South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and later contributed to growing American ambivalence about the Vietnam ...

In the spring of 1963, on a street in Saigon, Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in protest of the persecution of Buddhist monks in Vietnam by the Diem Regime. A photograph of Quang Duc's ...

Photographer Malcolm Browne took the above, unforgettable picture on June 11, 1963 when a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire and burned to death in complete, immobile silence as a ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Thich Quang Do, a Buddhist monk who became the public face of religious dissent in Vietnam while the Communist government kept him in prison or under house arrest for more than 20 ...

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The heart relic of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc will be open for public viewing from May 6 to 10 at the Vietnamese National Buddhist Temple in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City. The heart relic of ...

As the patriarch of a banned Buddhist church, he endured prison, house arrest and internal exile but refused to bend to the Communist authorities. By Seth Mydans Thich Quang Do, the patriarch of the ...

Thich Tri Quang, a Buddhist monk who wielded formidable political power during the Vietnam War, leading waves of protests that brought down South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and later ...

Thich Quang Do, a Buddhist monk who became the public face of religious dissent in Vietnam while the communist government kept him in prison or under house arrest for more than 20 years, died Feb. 22 ...