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Thousands gather in Ho Chi Minh City to venerate heart relic of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc
Ho Chi Minh City 18:36 06/05/2025Thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns, and devotees gathered at Viet Nam Quoc Tu Pagoda in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday to venerate the heart relic of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc, a revered Vietnamese monk who self-immolated in 1963 in protest of religious repression.
Photographer who captured iconic ‘burning monk’ moment in wartime Vietnam dies at 94
Vietnam News 14:52 09/09/2019Thong was among a few other photographers who witnessed the historic moment when Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc set himself ablaze in Saigon in 1963
