Thích Huyền Quang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Vietnamese Buddhist patriarch and activist
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Place of Birth: Bình Định, Vietnam
About Thích Huyền Quang
- Thích Huy?n Quang (19 September 1919 – 5 July 2008) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, dissident and activist.
- At the time, he was the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, a currently banned organisation in his homeland.
- He was notable for his activism for human and religious rights in Vietnam.
- In 1977, Quang wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Ph?m Van Ð?ng detailing counts of oppression by the communist regime.
- For this, he and five other senior monks were arrested and detained.
- In 1982, he was arrested and put on permanent house arrest for opposition to governmental policy after publicly denouncing the establishment of the state-controlled Vietnam Buddhist Church.In 2002, he was awarded the Homo Homini Award for his human rights activism by the Czech group People in Need, which he shared with Thích Qu?ng Ð? and Father Nguy?n Van Lý.
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