Thích Quảng Đức
1897 CE–1963 CE · Modern · Khánh Hòa province
1897–1963 CE
Thích Quảng Đức (1897–1963) was a Vietnamese Mahāyāna Buddhist monk who, on 11 June 1963, burned himself to death at a Saigon intersection in protest at the discriminatory policies of South Vietnam's Catholic-led Ngô Đình Diệm government toward the Buddhist majority. Malcolm Browne's photograph of his composed self-immolation became one of the most widely seen images of the 20th century and helped galvanize international pressure that contributed to the regime's fall later that year. His act is remembered as a defining—and, in its use of self-immolation, contested and exceptional—moment of Buddhist political protest. He is well documented.
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Khánh Hòa province
What they did here
DOCUMENTED: born Lâm Văn Túc in a village in Khánh Hòa in central Vietnam; ordained as a monk and served at temples across the south.
About Khánh Hòa province
Khánh Hòa is a coastal province of south-central Vietnam. It was the birthplace of the monk Thích Quảng Đức (born in Hội Khánh village, Vạn Ninh district), who became known worldwide for his 1963 self-immolation in Saigon in protest at the treatment of Buddhists.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Thích Quảng Đức’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Buddhist world
- D. T. Suzuki· 1870 CE–1966 CE
- Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta· 1870 CE–1949 CE
- Nyogen Senzaki· 1876 CE–1958 CE
- The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso)· 1876 CE–1933 CE
- Nyanatiloka Mahāthera· 1878 CE–1957 CE
- Sokei-an (Shigetsu Sasaki)· 1882 CE–1945 CE
- Hakuun Yasutani· 1885 CE–1973 CE
- Taixu· 1890 CE–1947 CE
- B. R. Ambedkar· 1891 CE–1956 CE
- Webu Sayadaw· 1896 CE–1977 CE
- Balangoda Ananda Maitreya· 1896 CE–1998 CE
- Anagarika Govinda· 1898 CE–1985 CE
- Sayagyi U Ba Khin· 1899 CE–1971 CE
- Nyanaponika Thera· 1901 CE–1994 CE
- Shunryū Suzuki· 1904 CE–1971 CE
- Mahasi Sayadaw· 1904 CE–1982 CE
- Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje)· 1904 CE–1987 CE
- Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu· 1906 CE–1993 CE
- Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo· 1907 CE–1961 CE
- Walpola Rahula· 1907 CE–1997 CE
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche· 1910 CE–1991 CE
- Dipa Ma· 1911 CE–1989 CE
- Alan Watts· 1915 CE–1973 CE
- Ajahn Chah· 1918 CE–1992 CE
Jewish world
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Christian world
Hindu world
Rulers world
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- Harry S. Truman· 1884 CE–1972 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Clement Attlee· 1883 CE–1967 CE
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