Thích is a name that Vietnamese monks and nuns take as their
Buddhist surname to show affinity with the Buddha.
Notable Vietnamese monks with the name include:
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Thích Huyền Quang (1919–2008), dissident and activist
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Thích Quảng Độ (1928–2020), critic of the Vietnamese government
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Thích Quảng Đức
Thích Quảng Đức (; vi-hantu, , 1897 – 11 June 1963; born Lâm Văn Túc) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persec ...
(1897–1963), who burned himself to death as a protest
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Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022), Zen teacher, author and peace activist
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Thích Nhật Từ (born 1969), public speaker and author
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Thích Thanh Từ, author and teacher
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Thích Trí Quang (1924–2019), Mahayana leader of South Vietnam's Buddhist majority in 1963
See also
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Thích Ca Phật Đài
Thích Ca Phật Đài () is a notable Theravada Buddhist temple in the coastal city of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam. It lies to the northwest of the Lớn mountain and was built between 1961 and 1963 when it was opened.
It is set on a plot of a ...
, temple in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam
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