Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (born 1897)

Thích Quảng Đức

Vietnamese Buddhist monk (c. 1897–1963)

Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm, a staunch Catholic. Photographs of…