Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen monk, author and peace activist
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022) was a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist who wrote widely on mindfulness. He founded the Plum Village tradition.
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Born 1926 in Huế, Vietnam Died 2022
About Thich Nhat Hanh
Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo in Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam, in 1926, he entered a Zen monastery at 16 and was ordained as a monk in 1949. In the mid-1960s he helped to establish the School of Youth for Social Services. Martin Luther King Jr. put his name forward for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He was exiled from South Vietnam in 1966 after speaking out against the war. In 1982 he founded Plum Village Monastery in southwest France. He was allowed to visit Vietnam again in 2005, and in 2018 he returned to Từ Hiếu Temple, where he lived until his death in 2022. He published about a hundred books, translated into more than forty languages. Titles in our catalog include The Miracle of Mindfulness, Peace Is Every Step and No Mud, No Lotus.