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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the BBC all ran stories in June 2012 about Tibetan monks who have set themselves on fire to protest against the Chinese government. The stories provoked ...

On June 11, 1963, Vietnamese monk Thích Quang Duc set himself on fire on a busy road in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Quang Duc’s self-immolation was an act of protest against the persecution of ...

The sacred heart relic of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc. Photo: Organizing committee In its latest announcement, the Vesak 2025 organizing committee stated: “The necessary conditions have not yet ...

From the afternoon of May 3 to the morning of May 11 (excluding the afternoon of May 5), monks, nuns, and the public may pay homage to the sacred heart relic of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc at Vietnam ...

Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street June 11, 1963 to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.Malcolm Browne / AP When Mohamed ...

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 ...