[7][32] On 21 August, the ARVN Special Forces of Nhu attacked Xá Lợi and other Buddhist pagodas across Vietnam. Many of the monks and nuns, as well as some shocked passersby, prostrated themselves before the burning monk. One placed a cushion on the road while the second opened the trunk and took out a five-gallon petrol can. Nearly one thousand monks accompanied by laypeople returned to the cremation site. "[26], By 1:30 pm (13:30), around 1,000 monks had congregated inside to hold a meeting, while outside a large crowd of pro-Buddhist students had formed a human barrier around it. The practice had also been seen in the Chinese city of Harbin in 1948 when a monk seated down in the lotus position on a pile of sawdust and soybean oil and set fire to himself in protest against the treatment of Buddhism by the communists of Mao Zedong. Diệm had scheduled an emergency cabinet meeting at 11:30 on 11 June to discuss the Buddhist crisis which he believed to be winding down. The people of Viet Nam have conferred the title of Bo Tat to Quang Duc. By every eyewitness account I have ever read and by the film footage of the 1963 "Burning Monk" incident, it does appear that Thích Quảng Đức did indeed remain sitting, stoic and quiet, as he burned himself to death. Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death (self-immolation) in Saigon (Present-day Ho Chi Minh City) on 11 June 1963 protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese Christian government, Self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc 1963, "Monk Suicide by Fire in Anti-Diem Protest,", Zi Jun Toong, "Overthrown by the Press: The US Media's Role in the Fall of Diem,", Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China, "The Situation in South Vietnam – SNIE 53-2-63", – Official Buddhist monastery dedicated to Thích Quảng Đức, Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire, Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent, Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent, Persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc, Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thích_Quảng_Đức&oldid=985314070, People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia, Articles containing Vietnamese-language text, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Chairman of the Panel on Ceremonial Rites of the Congregation of Vietnamese Monks, This page was last edited on 25 October 2020, at 07:13. Nearly 1,000 monks, accompanied by laypeople, returned to the cremation site. Thich means “most revered” — a title given only to spiritual masters. Buddhism teaches that we should express no violence to any being. [41] Ellen Hammer described the event as having "evoked dark images of persecution and horror corresponding to a profoundly Asian reality that passed the understanding of Westerners.


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