Leading Vietnamese Dissident Monk Laid to Rest

The funeral of Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, a leading Vietnamese Buddhist dissident, went ahead on July 11 under tight security. Hundreds of monks and believers had gathered outside a pagoda at the Nguyen Thieu monastery in central Vietnam for the rites. Venerable Quang, who died at 87, had spent most of the last three decades [...]

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