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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANSONIA — The photograph of Thich Quang Duc, the 66-year-old monk who burned himself to death on a busy Saigon street in 1963 is as powerful a protest against religious persecution today as it was ...

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 ailing health. He was 87. Quang led ...

FILE - In this July 8, 2003, file photo, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and perhaps the most prominent dissident in Vietnam, talks during an interview at the Thanh Minh Zen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Thich Quang Do, a Buddhist monk who became the public face of religious dissent in Vietnam while the Communist government kept him in prison or under house arrest for more than ...