Thich Tri Quang, a Buddhist monk who wielded formidable political power during the Vietnam War, leading waves of protests that brought down South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and later ...

Thich Tri Quang, a Buddhist monk who wielded formidable political power during the Vietnam War, leading waves of protests that brought down South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and later ...

In an unusual private interview, one of the relatively few he has granted to Western newsmen, Thich Tri Quang talked for an hour last week with TIME Correspondents Frank McCulloch and James Wilde at ...

The stench of cordite and the sour-sweet smell of tear gas—the incense of South Viet Nam’s political crisis—was missing in Saigon last week for the first time in more than a month. The frail, ...

"Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc is a radiant symbol of the compassion, wisdom, and courage of a living bodhisattva, and of the engaged spirit of Vietnamese Buddhism," said the Fourth Supreme Patriarch.

As an epigram to his new book, “Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism” — at 126 pages, really more like an extended pamphlet — Buddhist sage Thich Nhat Hanh includes a poem titled ...

Thich Tri Quang was a Buddhist monk who led waves of protests that brought down South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and later contributed to growing American ambivalence about the Vietnam ...