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 ...

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 ...

Malcolm W. Browne describes himself as an accidental journalist. Biographer Ray E. Boomhower picks up on this theme to take us into the moment that exemplifies Browne's instinct to show up, camera in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc is doused with gasoline during a protest demonstration in Saigon, on June 11, 1963. Credit - Malcolm Browne—AP A U.S. airman died after setting himself on fire in front ...

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 ...

On this day in 1963, an elderly Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc climbed from a car stopped at a busy intersection in Saigon. He sat down and crossed his legs as another monk poured gasoline over ...

(CNN) — When the Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc immolated himself in Saigon in 1963 to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem, the world took notice.

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 ...