Thích Quảng Đức
Vietnamese monk who self-immolated in 1963 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thích Quảng Đức (1897 – June 11, 1963) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk. He was born in Hội Khánh, French Indochina. He committed suicide by burning himself to death while sitting in a street in Saigon.[3] He was protesting the South Vietnam's government and Catholic president Ngô Đình Diệm's persecution of Buddhists. Pictures of him burning spread around the world, and made more people know about the Buddhist crisis.
Thích Quảng Đức | |
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Other names | Bồ Tát Thích Quảng Đức (Bodhisattva Thích Quảng Đức[1]) |
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Born | 1897 (1897) |
Died | 11 June 1963(1963-06-11) (aged 65–66) |
Cause of death | Burning himself to death |
Religion | Buddhism |
Sect | Mahayana |
Other names | Bồ Tát Thích Quảng Đức (Bodhisattva Thích Quảng Đức[2]) |
Because of Quảng Đức's protest, Diệm said that he was going to change how the government acted towards Buddhists. However, Diệm did not, so Buddhists kept protesting. The ARVN Special Forces (a group in the Vietnamese army) attacked many Buddhist pagodas in South Vietnam. They took Quảng Đức's heart, and killed many people. Many Buddhist monks were inspired by Quảng Đức, and also burned themselves to death. The Buddhist crisis ended when Diệm was killed in a coup in 1963.