By VO VAN AI
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA
Thich Huyen Quang, 87, patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, died in Vietnam on July 5 at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh. One of Vietnam’s most beloved and esteemed spiritual leaders, Quang was also a proponent of religious freedom and human rights in a country where both are in short supply. His life and death illustrate the moral bankruptcy of Vietnam’s Communist regime. (...)
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PARIS, 11 July 2008 (IBIB) – Despite threats by the authorities, round-the-clock Police surveillance, jamming of cell phones and other harassments, Venerable
Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) led a solemn funeral service this morning at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery for the late UBCV Supreme Patriarch
Thich Huyen Quang, who died last Saturday. Almost one thousand UBCV monks and nuns, 5,000 lay-Buddhists and members of the UBCV Buddhist Youth Movement braved controls (...)
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2008-07-10
PARIS, 10 July 2008 (IBIB) – As members of the
Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam prepare the funeral ceremony for the late Supreme Patriarch
Thich Huyen Quang, to be held at 7.00am on Friday 11th July at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh, international protests are mounting against the Vietnamese government’s attempt to impose a State-sponsored funeral and discredit UBCV Deputy leader
Thich Quang Do by denunciation campaigns in the State-controlled media.
Today (10 July) three prominent U.S. (...)
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2008-07-07
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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 Quang Do and the (...)
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2008-07-05
PARIS, 5 July 2008 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau is deeply grieved to announce that
Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 4th Supreme Patriarch of the outlawed
Unified Buddhist Church (UBCV) passed away today at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh. His death was announced in a Communiquee issued by the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the UBCV. A funeral ceremony will be held at the Nguyen Thieu (...)
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