Thich Nhat Hanh dies aged 95

Thich Nhat Hanh, an influential Vietnamese Buddhist monk, has died at the age of 95... A prolific author and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, is often referred to as the "father of mindfulness"... Thich Nhat Hanh, was exiled from Vietnam in the 1960s after opposing the war. During the height of the Vietnam War, he met with Martin Luther King, persuading the civil rights leader to speak out against the conflict. King later nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for a Nobel Peace Prize, describing him as "an apostle of peace and non violence"...

Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist who rose to prominence as an opponent of the Vietnam war, has died aged 95 surrounded by his followers in the temple where his spiritual journey began... In a body of work and public appearances spanning decades, Thich Nhat Hanh spoke in gentle yet powerful tones of the need to “walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”...

“I saw communists and anti-communists killing and destroying each other because each side believed they had a monopoly on the truth,” he wrote in 1975. “My voice was drowned out by the bombs, mortars and shouting.” Towards the height of the Vietnam war in the 1960s he met civil rights leader Martin Luther King, whom he persuaded to speak out against the conflict. King called Thich Nhat Hanh “an apostle of peace and non-violence” and nominated him for the Nobel peace prize...

A funeral has been held for the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, a week after the renowned Zen master and peace activist died at the age of 95 in Hue, central Vietnam. Thousands of monks and disciples trailed a procession of pallbearers carrying Thich Nhat Hanh’s coffin from Tu Hieu pagoda, where he spent his last days, to the cremation site. Others kneeled and clasped their hands in prayer on the roadside and bowed to the ground as the casket went past. Thich Nhat Hanh was globally recognised for spreading the practice of mindfulness and socially engaged Buddhism, particularly in the west...