Tensions rise in Binh Dinh as UBCV leaders prepare funeral for Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang
Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in his open coffin with Thich Quang Do in the background (6.7.2008) PARIS, 7 July 2008 (IBIB) – Mr. Vo Van Ai, Director of the International Buddhist Information Bureau strongly denounced government pressure on the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) as UBCV Deputy leader Thich …
Read More »Reuters : Dissident patriarch of Vietnam Buddhist group dies
HANOI, July 6, 2008 (Reuters) – The patriarch of a Vietnamese Buddhist group that has peacefully campaigned against successive governments and Communist Party controls on religion, died in his monastery at the age of 87 on Saturday, the organisation said. Thich Huyen Quang, Supreme Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist …
Read More »AFP : Vietnam’s top dissident Buddhist monk Thich Huyen Quang dies
Agence France Presse HANOI, 5 July 2008 (AFP) – Thich Huyen Quang, the head of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under communist government control, died on Saturday aged 87, his supporters said in a statement from Paris. “Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 4th Supreme …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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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