In June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon.

Saigon 1963. On the day of a Monk protest, around 400 Buddhist monks and nuns marched to the intersection carrying banners protesting about the Government oppression of their faith and culture. Then a ...

On this day in 1963, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức self-immolated to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. Arnold Schwarzenegger shares honest view on why ...

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On a rainy afternoon, South Viet Nam’s top three monks made separate arrivals at Saigon Buddhist headquarters—Thich Tri Quang in a blue Renault taxi, Thich Tarn Chan in a Mercedes, Thich Tinh Khiet in ...

The incident marks at least the third instance of self-immolation in the US outside of an Israeli consulate or embassy in response to the Israel-Hamas war. A man was rushed to the hospital with severe ...

Malcolm W. Browne describes himself as an accidental journalist. Biographer Ray E. Boomhower picks up on this theme to take us into the moment that exemplifies Browne's instinct to show up, camera in ...

Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were ...

Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were ...