Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sacking the pagoda's main altar, the raiders carted away the charred heart of Buddhist Martyr Thich Quang Due, who last June was the first of five Buddhists to burn himself to death in pro test against the Diem government's anti-Buddhist drive. But the Buddhists managed to spirit out of the building the receptacle holding Quang Due's ashes. "The ashes are holy," said one monk. "We would give 15 lives to defend them." Two other monks escaped over the back wall of Xa Loi (pronounced sah loy) into the grounds of the adjoining...
...Catholic, I find her disregard for the sincerity of another's actions (the self-immolation of Quang Due) and her patronization of the late Holy Father John XXIII very hard to take...
...crisis, as she sees it, the Buddhists are certainly not underdogs but "provocateurs in monks' robes." She has consistently opposed the U.S. counsel of moderation and Diem's own halfhearted efforts to temporize. Her recommendation for dealing with Buddhist demonstrators: "Beat them three times harder." When the Buddhist monk, Quang Due, burned himself to death in protest against the regime six weeks ago, Mme. Nhu was unimpressed. The Buddhists "barbecued one of their monks, whom they intoxicated," she savagely told a CBS reporter last week. "And even that burning was not done with self-sufficient means, because they used imported...
...suicide and the Saigon trial served once again to stoke South Viet Nam's smoldering religious and political crisis. Last month Buddhist Monk Thich Quang Due burned himself to death on a Saigon street corner in protest against restrictions imposed on the country's 12 million Buddhists by Diem's predominantly Roman Catholic regime. After a series of nationwide demonstrations,* the government, under U.S. prodding, yielded to Buddhist demands and granted them equal religious and political standing with the nation's 1,500,000 Catholics. But influenced by his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, who believes that...
Skeptics suggested the Quang Due's heart had been removed from the body before cremation, or had been injected with a fire-resisting fluid. Certainly the phenomenon was far from original; down through the ages, in legend and fact, the hearts of heroic figures have more than once withstood the flames.*But the "miracle" serves the Buddhists in their two-month-old war with Diem. Thanks partly to pressure from the U.S., which fears that massive Buddhist disaffection could wreck South Viet Nam's long, vital campaign against the Communists, the Diem government signed a compromise agreeing...