On the morning of June 5th, the Venerable Thich Tri Quang, the Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, attended the commemoration ceremony marking the 63rd anniversary of Bodhisattva Thich ...

The heart sarira of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc, who died in self-immolation to protest the suppression of Buddhism by the Ngo Dinh Diem government in 1963, will be open for public viewing in Ho Chi ...

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 ...

One of the most iconic images of the 20th century is the photograph of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself to death on the streets of Saigon. The monk was named Thích Quảng Duc, and he died of ...

More than six decades after Thich Quang Duc’s historic self-immolation, the Austin that carried him to the site remains preserved at Thien Mu Pagoda in Hue. Thien Mu Pagoda, a more than 400-year-old ...

The Burning Monk, Thich Quang Duc, became one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War era. On June 11, 1963, he sat down in a Saigon intersection, and didn’t move. But behind the famous ...

On the morning of May 11, the Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha will hold a solemn ceremony to enshrine the heart and bone relics of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc at Da Bao Tower, located within the ...

A Bates professor has received a $40,000 grant to complete his research into a Vietnamese monk whose self-immolation in 1963 was one of the defining acts of the Vietnam War years. On June 11, 1963, at ...

The Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, Venerable Thich Tri Quang, presided over the ceremony of enshrining the heart relic of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc in the Da Bao Pagoda on the ...

In June 1963, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk died after setting himself on fire in protest against the Catholic South Vietnamese government. Malcolm Brown's photograph of Thich Quang Duc's burning body ...