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UBCV Patriarch passes away at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh

PARIS, 5 July 2008 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau is deeply grieved to announce that Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 4th Supreme Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church (UBCV) passed away today at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh. His death was announced in a Communiquee …

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AP : Dissident Vietnamese monk dies in Vietnam

    HANOI, Vietnam, July 5, 2008 (AP) – Thich Huyen Quang, the patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam who spent more than two decades in and out of house arrest, died Saturday after months of ailing health. He was 87. The leader of the Unified Buddhist Church …

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AFP : Thich Huyen Quang, Vietnam’s leading Buddhist dissident

  Agence France Presse   Buddist monk Thich Huyen Quang (left) holds talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai in 2003. Quang — the 87-year-old leader of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under government control — has died in Binh Dinh province. (AFP/VNA/File/Str) HANOI, 5 …

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AFP : Vietnam’s top dissident Buddhist monk gravely ill

  Agence France Presse   HANOI, 04 juil 2008 (AFP) – The leader of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under the control of the communist government is gravely ill in hospital, his supporters and state media said Friday. Thich Huyen Quang, 87, patriarch of the banned …

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