Ho Chi Minh City/Oslo, Nov 1, 2006 (dpa) – Communist-run Vietnam on Wednesday dismissed an international human rights prize for a leading monk of a banned Buddhist sect as “completely inappropriate,” state media reported. Thich Quang Do, 77, a pro-democracy activist and deputy patriarch of the Unified Buddhist …
Read More »HANOI, Oct 31, 2006 (AFP) – A Vietnamese Buddhist monk will not travel to Norway this week to receive the Rafto human rights award because he fears he would be banned from returning to his homeland, his supporters said Tuesday. Thich Quang Do, a 77-year-old monk who has been under …
Read More »PARIS, 31 October 2006 (IBIB) – Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), has sent a letter to the Rafto Foundation in Bergen, Norway, to say that he cannot travel to Norway to receive the 2006 Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize, awarded …
Read More »PARIS, October 27, 2006 (IBIB) – The Norwegian Rafto Foundation announced on 21st September that Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), will receive the 2006 Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for his contribution to human rights and as a “unifying force” …
Read More »The International Buddhist Information Bureau is happy to announce that the Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang left the French-Vietnamese hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) today. He is now under convalescence at the Giac Hoa Pagoda in Binh Thanh Ward (Saigon), …
Read More »PARIS, 1st October 2006 (IBIB) – The Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) was transferred from the Cho Ray State hospital to a private clinic in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) today, 1st October 2006. UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang Do and a …
Read More »PARIS, 29 September 2006 (IBIB) – Venerable Thich Quang Do, second-ranking leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), paid a visit to UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang at the Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) this afternoon, Friday 29th September at 4.00 pm. The …
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