Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) was a Vietnamese Zen monk, poet and peace activist. Born in Huế, he entered monastic training at sixteen and was ordained in 1951. Opposing the war in Vietnam, he founded the Order of Interbeing in the mid-1960s and coined the term engaged Buddhism; Martin Luther King Jr. nominated him for the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize. Exiled from Vietnam for thirty-nine years, he settled in France and founded the Plum Village monastery in the Dordogne in 1982, from where he taught mindfulness to a worldwide readership. He wrote more than a hundred books, among them The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) and Old Path White Clouds (1991), and returned to Huế in 2018, where he died.
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Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) was a Vietnamese Zen monk, poet and peace activist. Born in Huế, he entered monastic training at sixteen and was ordained in 1951. Opposing the war in Vietnam, he founded the Order of Interbeing in the mid-1960s and coined the term engaged Buddhism; Martin Luther King Jr. nominated him for the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize. Exiled from Vietnam for thirty-nine years, he settled in France and founded the Plum Village monastery in the Dordogne in 1982, from where he taught mindfulness to a worldwide readership. He wrote more than a hundred books, among them The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) and Old Path White Clouds (1991), and returned to Huế in 2018, where he died.
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