The leader of a Buddhist temple in Santa Ana is questioning what happened to money raised by the Orange County Vietnamese American community for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Two checks totaling $27,000 ...

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 ...

A renowned Buddhist monk, well known for being a thorn in the side of Vietnam’s communist government and who spent more than a decade under house arrest, has died at the age of 93. Most Venerable ...

As a world-renowned Buddhist scholar, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh has become almost synonymous with the words reconciliation and healing. Exiled by both North and South in the 1960s, he focused ...

Thich Huyen Quang, the patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam who spent more than two decades in and out of house arrest, died Saturday after months of failing health. He was 87. The ...

Thich Quang Thanh calls himself “a jack of all trades.” That may be putting it mildly. The Buddhist leader is not just the abbot at the Chua Bao Quang temple. The 60-year-old monk is also the maker ...

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 ...

As the patriarch of a banned Buddhist church, he endured prison, house arrest and internal exile but refused to bend to the Communist authorities. By Seth Mydans Thich Quang Do, the patriarch of the ...