Thích Huyền Quang | |
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Title | Tăng thống (Patriarch) |
Personal | |
Born | Lê Đình Nhàn 19 September 1919 Bình Định Province, Vietnam,
French Indochina |
Died | 5 July 2008 Hồ Chí Minh City, Socialist Republic of Vietnam | (aged 88)
Religion | Buddhism |
Nationality | Vietnamese |
Denomination | Thiền |
School | Lâm Tế (Linji Chan School) |
Thích Huyền Quang (19 September 1919 – 5 July 2008 [1]) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, dissident and activist. At the time, he was the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, a currently banned organisation in his homeland. He was notable for his activism for human and religious rights in Vietnam.
In 1977, Quang wrote a letter to then- Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng detailing counts of oppression by the communist regime. For this, he and five other senior monks were arrested and detained. [1] In 1982, he was arrested and put on permanent house arrest for opposition to governmental policy after publicly denouncing the establishment of the state-controlled Vietnam Buddhist Sangha. [2]
In 2002, he was awarded the Homo Homini Award for his human rights activism by the Czech group People in Need, which he shared with Thích Quảng Độ and Father Nguyễn Văn Lý. [3]
Quang died peacefully on Saturday, 5 July 2008, aged 88, at his monastery. [4] [5] [6] [7] His funeral was held on Friday, 11 July 2008, without incident. [8]
Thích Huyền Quang | |
---|---|
Title | Tăng thống (Patriarch) |
Personal | |
Born | Lê Đình Nhàn 19 September 1919 Bình Định Province, Vietnam,
French Indochina |
Died | 5 July 2008 Hồ Chí Minh City, Socialist Republic of Vietnam | (aged 88)
Religion | Buddhism |
Nationality | Vietnamese |
Denomination | Thiền |
School | Lâm Tế (Linji Chan School) |
Thích Huyền Quang (19 September 1919 – 5 July 2008 [1]) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, dissident and activist. At the time, he was the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, a currently banned organisation in his homeland. He was notable for his activism for human and religious rights in Vietnam.
In 1977, Quang wrote a letter to then- Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng detailing counts of oppression by the communist regime. For this, he and five other senior monks were arrested and detained. [1] In 1982, he was arrested and put on permanent house arrest for opposition to governmental policy after publicly denouncing the establishment of the state-controlled Vietnam Buddhist Sangha. [2]
In 2002, he was awarded the Homo Homini Award for his human rights activism by the Czech group People in Need, which he shared with Thích Quảng Độ and Father Nguyễn Văn Lý. [3]
Quang died peacefully on Saturday, 5 July 2008, aged 88, at his monastery. [4] [5] [6] [7] His funeral was held on Friday, 11 July 2008, without incident. [8]