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
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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.
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