- Title: The Burning Monk
- Artist: phydeoux
- Description: On June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk in Vietnam, burned himself to death in the middle of downtown Saigon. He assumed the traditional lotus position as his fellow monks poured gasoline over him. He used a match to ignite himself and burned to death. David Halberstam, a reporter for the New York Times stated that he never moved a muscle, or made a sound as he engulfed himself in flames. Thich Quang Duc's remains were later cremated and legend has it that his heart would not burn.
- Date: 08/31/2008
- Tags: burning vietnam vietnamese monk buddhist
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Comments (7 Comments)
- Nerinaz - 09/05/2008
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Being a fellow vietnamese person, I feel kind of sad... I learned about him a little... I didn't know his fellow monks killed him D: -sob sob sob- 5/5 sob - Report As Spam
- Ghost_of_Squamy - 09/05/2008
- Thats deep right there, what he did. Real deep.
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- Silent-Assassin25 - 09/05/2008
- sweet
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- Hopelless_Romantiic - 09/05/2008
- omg!! my chemistry teacher showed us that the other day!
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- neroneon - 09/05/2008
- awesome i wish i had that much gold >.<
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- GravityDefying16 - 09/05/2008
- That is so cool!!! it really caught my eye!!! i luv it!! and it is educational, i never heard of that. very inspirational and awesome!!! 1,000,000/100!!! smile
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- master frozenboy - 09/05/2008
- nice bro.what is the fire bhind you called?pm me back man.will be in touch bro.see ya
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