Vietnamese Buddhists: Standing Against Dictators

Friday, May 7, 2010

Vietnamese Buddhists: Standing Against Dictators

By Nick Gier, Unfiltered 5-06-10 Vietnamese are Confucians in peacetime, but Buddhists in times of trouble. –Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake Buddhists all over the world will be celebrating their founder’s 2,573rd birthday on May 21, and we should remember with sadness the deaths of nine Vietnamese Buddhists who were shot by U.S.-armed troops [...]

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Nguyen wins grant to study monk symbolic of Vietnam War era

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Nguyen wins grant to study monk symbolic of Vietnam War era

April 21, 2010 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 busy intersection in the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc set [...]

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