- 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)
- melancholy one - 09/03/2008
- sick nasty ^-^
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- Draikule - 09/03/2008
- Needs CREATIVITY. ta : *
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- Eternal Saint - 09/03/2008
- "Nice Avi" xP
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- Nehen - 09/03/2008
- Wow, what a cool idea... I mean, it's a serious subject matter, but the avatar looks cool and I just learned something. It's amazing how he didn't even move or struggle... it's very symbolic, admirable. The first 5/5 today, I hope you win smile
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- elizarave - 09/03/2008
- thats really cool that you could put history into the arena and it actually did look like the pic awesome job!!! i hope to see more of this in the arena!
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- Rubytan - 09/03/2008
- Wow, this is probably the first history based avi I've seen in the arena, but that's not much to say since i dont check this out very often. Good job 10 ugh... I mean 5/5
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- lady sakura girl - 09/03/2008
- It's really interesting since not only you are making a resemblance of the picture but also a fact from history. I never knew about this and my background is Vietnamese so it was nice seeing some culture in the arena.
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