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...approximately 10:15 a.m. Saturday, the coffin was closed amid the wails of Ho's mother...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Mourners filled the chapel's seats and the second-floor gallery. There, Duc repeated the three-part Sanskrit liturgy at the side of Ho's closed coffin. In a few brief remarks in English, he told the mourners: "Our lives on this earth are impermanent...Disease causes us [to] suffer. Death causes us [to] suffer. Wisdom causes us [to] suffer...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...four pall-bearers removed Ho's coffin from the chapel...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...Sanskrit liturgy was repeated for the third and final time at the burial plot, under a large dogwood tree. As Duc finished the incantations, Ho's coffin was lowered into the ground. The mourners bowed their heads three times, in accordance with Vietnamese custom...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...father Phuong Ho, who flew in from California, cried loudly as he touched the coffin. Also among the mourners was Thao Nguyen...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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