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Thích Nhất Hạnh
Nhất Hạnh in Paris in 2006
TitleThiền Sư
(Zen master)
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Born
Nguyễn Xuân Bảo

(1926-10-11)11 October 1926
Huế,Thừa Thiên,Annam,French Indochina
Died22 January 2022(2022-01-22)(aged 95)
Huế, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province,Vietnam
ReligionThiền Buddhism
SchoolLinji school(Lâm Tế)[1]
Order of Interbeing
Plum Village Tradition
Lineage42nd generation (Lâm Tế)[1]
8th generation (Liễu Quán)[1]
Known forEngaged Buddhism,father of themindfulnessmovement
Other namesNguyễn Đình Lang
Dharma namesPhùng Xuân, Điệu Sung
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Thích Nhất Hạnh(/ˈtɪkˈnɑːtˈhɑːn/TIK NAHT HAHN;Vietnamese:[tʰǐk̟ɲə̌thâjŋ̟ˀ]ⓘ,Huế dialect:[tʰɨt̚˦˧˥ɲək̚˦˧˥hɛɲ˨˩ʔ];bornNguyễn Xuân Bảo;11 October 1926 – 22 January 2022) was a VietnameseThiền Buddhistmonk,peace activist,prolific author, poet and teacher,[2]who founded thePlum Village Tradition,historically recognized as the main inspiration forengaged Buddhism.[3]Known as the "father ofmindfulness",[4]Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices ofBuddhism.[2]

In the mid-1960s, Nhất Hạnh co-founded the School of Youth for Social Services and created theOrder of Interbeing.[3]He was exiled fromSouth Vietnamin 1966 after expressing opposition to the war and refusing to take sides.[2][5][6]In 1967,Martin Luther King Jr.nominated him for aNobel Peace Prize.[7][2]Nhất Hạnh established dozens of monasteries and practice centers[2]and spent many years living at thePlum Village Monastery,which he founded in 1982 insouthwest FrancenearThénac,[8]traveling internationally to give retreats and talks. Nhất Hạnh promoted deep listening as a nonviolent solution to conflict and sought to raise awareness of the interconnectedness of all elements in nature.[9]He coined the term "engaged Buddhism" in his bookVietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.[10]

After a 39-year exile, Nhất Hạnh was permitted to visit Vietnam in 2005.[5]In 2018, he returned to Vietnam to his "root temple", Từ Hiếu Temple, nearHuế,[11]where he lived until his death in 2022, at the age of 95.[12]

Early life[edit]

Nhất Hạnh was bornNguyễn Xuân Bảoon 11 October 1926, in the ancient capital ofHuếin centralVietnam.[13][7][14]He is 15th generation Nguyễn Đình; the poetNguyễn Đình Chiểu,author ofLục Vân Tiên,was his ancestor.[15]His father, Nguyễn Đình Phúc, from Thành Trung village in Thừa Thiên, Huế, was an official with the French administration.[15]His mother, Trần Thị Dĩ, was a homemaker[7]from Gio Linh district.[15]Nhất Hạnh was the fifth of their six children.[15]Until he was age five, he lived with his large extended family at his grandmother's home.[15]He recalled feeling joy at age seven or eight after he saw a drawing of a peaceful Buddha, sitting on the grass.[14][7]On a school trip, he visited a mountain where a hermit lived who was said to sit quietly day and night to become peaceful like the Buddha. They explored the area, and he found a natural well, which he drank from and felt completely satisfied. It was this experience that led him to want to become a Buddhist monk.[6]At age 12, he expressed an interest in training to become a monk, which his parents, cautious at first, eventually let him pursue at age 16.[14]

Names applied to him[edit]

Nhất Hạnh had many names in his lifetime. As a boy, he received a formal family name (Nguyễn Đình Lang) to register for school, but was known by his nickname (Bé Em). He received a spiritual name (Điệu Sung) as an aspirant for the monkhood; a Lineage name (Trừng Quang) when he formally became a lay Buddhist; and when he ordained as a monk he received aDharma name(Phùng Xuân). He took the Dharma title Nhất Hạnh when he moved to Saigon in 1949.[16]

TheVietnamese nameThích(Thích) is from "Thích Ca" or "Thích Già" (Thích già,"of theShakyaclan ").[17]All Buddhist monastics inEast Asian Buddhismadopt this name as their surname, implying that their first family is the Buddhist community. In many Buddhist traditions, a person can receive a progression of names. The lineage name is given first when a person takesrefugein theThree Jewels.Nhất Hạnh's lineage name is Trừng Quang ( trừng quang, "Clear, Reflective Light" ). The second is a dharma name, given when a person takes vows or is ordained as a monastic. Nhất Hạnh's dharma name is Phùng Xuân ( phùng xuân, "Meeting Spring" ) and his dharma title is Nhất Hạnh.[17]

NeitherNhất(Nhất) norHạnh(Hành), which approximate the roles of middle name andgiven name,was part of his name at birth.Nhấtmeans "one", implying "first-class", or "of best quality";Hạnhmeans "action", implying "right conduct","good nature ", or" virtue ". He translated his Dharma names as" One "(Nhất) and" Action "(Hạnh). Vietnamese names follow this convention, placing the family name first, then the middle name, which often refers to the person's position in the family or generation, followed by the given name.[18]

Nhất Hạnh's followers called himThầy( "master; teacher" ), orThầyNhất Hạnh. Any Vietnamese monk in the Mahayana tradition can be addressed as "thầy", with monks addressed asthầy tu( "monk" ) and nuns addressed assư cô( "sister" ) orsư bà( "elder sister" ). He is also known as Thiền Sư Nhất Hạnh ( "Zen Master Nhất Hạnh" ).[19]

Education[edit]

Buddha hall of the Từ Hiếu Temple
Thích Nhất Hạnh was the forty-second heir of theLinji schoolofZen Buddhismin Vietnam

At age 16, Nhất Hạnh entered the monastery at Từ Hiếu Temple, where his primary teacher wasZen MasterThanh Quý Chân Thật, who was from the 43rd generation of the Lâm Tế Zen school and the ninth generation of the Liễu Quán school.[13][20][14]He studied as anovicefor three years and received training in Vietnamese traditions ofMahayanaandTheravadaBuddhism.[13]Here he also learned Chinese, English and French.[6]Nhất Hạnh attendedBáo QuốcBuddhist Academy.[13][2]Dissatisfied with the focus at Báo Quốc Academy, which he found lacking in philosophy, literature, and foreign languages, Nhất Hạnh left in 1950[13]and took up residence in theẤn Quang Pagodain Saigon, where he wasordained as a monkin 1951.[14]He supported himself by selling books and poetry while attendingSaigon University,[13]where he studied science.[21]

In 1955, Nhất Hạnh returned toHuếand served as the editor ofPhật Giáo Việt Nam(Vietnamese Buddhism), the official publication of the General Association of Vietnamese Buddhists (Tổng Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam) for two years before the publication was suspended as higher-ranking monks disapproved of his writing. He believed that this was due to his opinion that South Vietnam's various Buddhist organisations should unite. In 1956, while he was away teaching inĐà Lạt,his name was expunged from the records of Ấn Quang, effectively disowning him from the temple. In late 1957, Nhất Hạnh decided to go on retreat, and established a monastic "community of resistance" named Phương Bôi, in Đại Lao Forest near Đà Lạt. During this period, he taught at a nearby high school and continued to write, promoting the idea of a humanistic, unified Buddhism.[13]

From 1959 to 1961, Nhất Hạnh taught several short courses on Buddhism at various Saigon temples, including the largeXá Lợi Pagoda,where his class was cancelled mid-session and he was removed due to disapproval of his teachings. Facing further opposition from Vietnamese religious and secular authorities,[13]Nhất Hạnh accepted aFulbright Fellowship[6]in 1960 to studycomparative religionatPrinceton University.[22]He studied at thePrinceton Theological Seminaryin 1961.[23][2]In 1962 he was appointed lecturer in Buddhism atColumbia University[14]and also taught as a lecturer atCornell University.[2]By then he had gained fluency in French,Classical Chinese,Sanskrit,Paliand English, in addition to his nativeVietnamese.[22]

Career[edit]

Activism in Vietnam 1963–1966[edit]

In 1963, after themilitary overthrowof the minority Catholic regime of PresidentNgo Dinh Diem,Nhất Hạnh returned toSouth Vietnamon 16 December 1963, at the request ofThich Tri Quang,the monk most prominent inprotesting the religious discrimination of Diem,to help restructure the administration of Vietnamese Buddhism.[13]As a result of a congress, the General Association of Buddhists and other groups merged to form theUnified Buddhist Church of Vietnam(UBCV) in January 1964, and Nhất Hạnh proposed that the executive publicly call for an end to theVietnam War,help establish an institute for the study of Buddhism to train future leaders, and create a centre to train pacifist social workers based on Buddhist teaching.[13]

In 1964, two of Nhất Hạnh's students founded La Boi Press with a grant from Mrs. Ngo Van Hieu. Within two years, the press published 12 books, but by 1966, the publishers risked arrest and jail because the word "peace" was taken to mean communism.[24]Nhất Hạnh also edited the weekly journalHải Triều Âm(Sound of the Rising Tide), the UBCV's official publication. He continually advocated peace and reconciliation, notably calling in September 1964, soon after theGulf of Tonkin incident,for a peace settlement, and referring to theViet Congas brothers. The South Vietnamese government subsequently closed the journal.[13]

On 1 May 1966, at Từ Hiếu Temple, Nhất Hạnh received the "lamp transmission" from Zen Master Chân Thật, making him a dharmacharya (teacher)[17]and the spiritual head of Từ Hiếu and associated monasteries.[17][25]

Vạn Hanh Buddhist University[edit]

On 13 March 1964, Nhất Hạnh and the monks at An Quang Pagoda founded the Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies (Học Viện Phật Giáo Việt Nam), with the UBCV's support and endorsement.[13]RenamedVạn HanhBuddhist University, it was a private institution that taught Buddhist studies, Vietnamese culture, and languages, in Saigon. Nhất Hạnh taughtBuddhist psychologyandprajnaparamitaliterature there,[14]and helped finance the university by fundraising from supporters.[13]

School of Youth for Social Service (SYSS)[edit]

Chân Không
(Sister True Emptiness)

In 1964, Nhất Hạnh co-founded[3]the School of Youth for Social Service (SYSS), a neutral corps of Buddhist peace workers who went into rural areas to establish schools, build healthcare clinics, and help rebuild villages.[8]The SYSS consisted of 10,000 volunteers and social workers who aided war-torn villages, rebuilt schools and established medical centers.[26]He left for the U.S. shortly afterwards and was not allowed to return, leaving SisterChân Khôngin charge of the SYSS. Chân Không was central to the foundation and many of the activities of the SYSS, which organized medical, educational and agricultural facilities in rural Vietnam during the war.[27]Nhất Hạnh was initially given substantial autonomy to run the SYSS, which was initially part of Vạn Hạnh University. In April 1966, the Vạn Hạnh Students’ Union under the presidency of Phượng issued a "Call for Peace". Vice Chancellor Thích Minh Châu dissolved the students' union and removed the SYSS from the university's auspices.[13]

The Order of Interbeing[edit]

Main article:Order of Interbeing

Nhất Hạnh created theOrder of Interbeing(Vietnamese:Tiếp Hiện), a monastic and lay group, between 1964[8]and 1966.[22]He headed this group, basing it on the philosophical concept ofinterbeingand teaching it through the Five Mindfulness Trainings[28]and the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings.[29][3]Nhất Hạnh established the Order of Interbeing from a selection of six SYSS board members, three men and three women, who took a vow to practice the Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism.[30]He added a seventh member in 1981.[30]

In 1967,Nhat Chi Mai,one of the first six Order of Interbeing members, set fire to herself and burned to death in front of the Tu Nghiem Pagoda in Saigon as a peace protest after calling for an end to theVietnam War.[3][31][32]On several occasions, Nhất Hạnh explained to Westerners thatThích Quảng Đứcand other Vietnamese Buddhist monks who self-immolated during the Vietnam war did not perform acts of suicide; rather, their acts were, in his words, aimed "at moving the hearts of the oppressors, and at calling the attention of the world to the suffering endured then by the Vietnamese."[33][34][32][35]

The Order of Interbeing expanded into an international community of laypeople and monastics focused on "mindfulness practice, ethical behavior, and compassionate action in society."[36]By 2017, the group had grown to include thousands known to recite the Fourteen Precepts.[30]

During the Vietnam War[edit]

Vạn Hạnh University was taken over by one of the chancellors, who wished to sever ties with Nhất Hạnh and the SYSS, accusing Chân Không of being a communist. Thereafter the SYSS struggled to raise funds and faced attacks on its members. It persisted in its relief efforts without taking sides in the conflict.[10]

Nhất Hạnh returned to the U.S. in 1966 to lead a symposium inVietnamese BuddhismatCornell Universityand continue his work for peace.[13]He was invited by ProfessorGeorge McTurnan Kahin,also of Cornell and a U.S. government foreign policy consultant, to participate on a forum on U.S. policy in Vietnam. On 1 June, Nhất Hạnh released a five-point proposal addressed to the U.S. government, recommending that (1) the U.S. make a clear statement of its desire to help the Vietnamese people form a government "truly responsive to Vietnamese aspirations"; (2) the U.S. and South Vietnam cease air strikes throughout Vietnam; (3) all anti-communist military operations be purely defensive; (4) the U.S. demonstrate a willingness to withdraw within a few months; and (5) the U.S. offer to pay for reconstruction.[13]In 1967 he wroteVietnam — The Lotus in the Sea of Fire,about his proposals.[13]The South Vietnamese military junta responded by accusing him of treason and being a communist.[13]

While in the U.S., Nhất Hạnh visitedGethsemani Abbeyto speak with theTrappistmonkThomas Merton.[37]When the South Vietnamese regime threatened to block Nhất Hạnh's reentry to the country, Merton wrote an essay of solidarity, "Nhat Hanh is my Brother".[37]In 1964, after the publication of his famous poem,"whoever is listening, be my witness: I cannot accept this war...",Nhất Hạnh was labeled an "antiwar poet" and denounced as a "pro-Communist propagandist" by the American press.[2]In 1965 he had writtenMartin Luther King Jr.a letter titled "In Search of the Enemy of Man".[38]During his 1966 stay in the U.S., Nhất Hạnh met King and urged him to publicly denounce theVietnam War.[39]In 1967, King gave the speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"atRiverside Churchin New York City, his first to publicly question U.S. involvement in Vietnam.[40]Later that year, King nominated Nhất Hạnh for the 1967Nobel Peace Prize.In his nomination, King said, "I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than this gentle monk from Vietnam. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity".[41]King also called Nhất Hạnh "an apostle of peace and non-violence".[42]King had revealed the candidate he had chosen to nominate with a "strong request" to the prize committee, in sharp violation of Nobel traditions and protocol.[43][44]The committee did not make an award that year.[2]

Refuge in France[edit]

Nhất Hạnh moved to Paris in 1966.[14]He became the chair of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation.[14]

In 1969, Nhất Hạnh established theUnified Buddhist Church(Église Bouddhique Unifiée) in France (not a part of theUnified Buddhist Church of Vietnam). In 1975, he formed the Sweet Potatoes Meditation Centre atFontvannes,in theForet d’Othe,nearTroyesinAubeprovince southeast of Paris.[13]For the next seven years, he focused on writing, and completedThe Miracle of Mindfulness,The Moon Bamboo,andThe Sun My Heart.[13]

Nhất Hạnh began teaching mindfulness in the mid-1970s with his books, particularlyThe Miracle of Mindfulness(1975), serving as the main vehicle for his early teachings.[45]In an interview forOn Being,he said thatThe Miracle of Mindfulnesswas "written for our social workers, first, in Vietnam, because they were living in a situation where the danger of dying was there every day. So out of compassion, out of a willingness to help them to continue their work,The Miracle of Mindfulnesswas written as a manual practice. And after that, many friends in the West, they think that it is helpful for them, so we allow it to be translated into English. "[46]

Campaign to help boat people and expulsion from Singapore[edit]

When the North Vietnamese army took control of the south in 1975, Nhất Hạnh was denied permission to return to Vietnam,[14]and the communist government banned his publications.[13]He soon began to lead efforts to help rescueVietnamese boat peoplein theGulf of Siam,[47]eventually stopping under pressure from the governments ofThailandand Singapore.[48]

Recounting his experience years later, Nhất Hạnh said he was in Singapore attending a conference on religion and peace when he discovered the plight of the suffering of the boat people:[20]

So many boat people were dying in the ocean, and Singapore had a very harsh policy on the boat people… The policy of Singapore at that time was to reject the boat people; Malaysia, also. They preferred to have the boat people die in the ocean rather than to bring them to land and make them into prisoners. Every time there was a boat with the boat people [that came] to the shore, they tried to push them [back] out into the sea in order [for them] to die. They didn't want to host [them]. And those fishermen who had compassion, who were able to save the boat people from drowning in the sea, were punished. They had to pay a very huge sum of money so that next time they won't have the courage to save the boat people.

He stayed on in Singapore to organise a secret rescue operation. Aided by concerned individuals from France, the Netherlands, and other European countries, he hired a boat to bring food, water and medicine to refugees in the sea. Sympathetic fishermen who had rescued boat people would call up his team, and they shuttled the refugees to the French embassy in the middle of the night and helped them climb into the compound, before they were discovered by staff in the morning and handed over to the police where they were placed in the relative safety of detention.[citation needed]

When the Singapore government discovered the clandestine network, the police surrounded its office and impounded the passports of both Nhất Hạnh and Chân Không, giving them 24 hours to leave the country. It was only with the intervention of the then-French ambassador to Singapore Jacques Gasseau that they were given 10 days to wind down their rescue operations.[citation needed]

Nhất Hạnh was only allowed to return to Singapore in 2010 to lead a meditation retreat at theKong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery.[citation needed]

Plum Village[edit]

In 1982, Nhất Hạnh and Chân Không established thePlum Village Monastery,avihara[A]in theDordognenearBordeauxin southern France.[8]Plum Village is the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and America, with over 200 monastics and over 10,000 visitors a year.[49][50]

ThePlum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism[51](formerly the Unified Buddhist Church) and its sister organization in France, the Congrégation Bouddhique Zen Village des Pruniers, are the legally recognized governing bodies of Plum Village in France.[citation needed]

Expanded practice centres[edit]

Deer Park Monasteryin California

By 2019, Nhất Hạnh had built a network of monasteries and retreat centres in several countries,[52]including France, the U.S., Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong.[53][54]Additional practice centres and associated organizations Nhất Hạnh and the Order of Interbeing established in the US includeBlue Cliff MonasteryinPine Bush, New York;theCommunity of Mindful LivinginBerkeley, California;Parallax Press;Deer Park Monastery(Tu Viện Lộc Uyển), established in 2000[22]inEscondido, California;Magnolia Grove Monastery(Đạo Tràng Mộc Lan) inBatesville, Mississippi;and the European Institute of Applied Buddhism inWaldbröl,Germany.[55][56](TheMaple Forest Monastery(Tu Viện Rừng Phong) and Green Mountain Dharma Center (Ðạo Tràng Thanh Sơn) inVermontclosed in 2007 and moved to the Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush.) The monasteries, open to the public during much of the year, provide ongoing retreats for laypeople, while the Order of Interbeing holds retreats for specific groups of laypeople, such as families, teenagers, military veterans, the entertainment industry, members of Congress, law enforcement officers and people of colour.[57][58][59]

According to the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation, the charitable organization that serves as the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism's fundraising arm, as of 2017 the monastic order Nhất Hạnh established comprises over 750 monastics in 9 monasteries worldwide.[60]

Nhất Hạnh established two monasteries in Vietnam, at the original Từ Hiếu Temple nearHuếand at Prajna Temple in the central highlands.[citation needed]

Writings[edit]

Nhất Hạnh has published over 130 books, including more than 100 in English, which as of January 2019 had sold over five million copies worldwide.[21][61]His books, which cover topics including spiritual guides and Buddhist texts, teachings on mindfulness, poetry, story collections, and scholarly essays on Zen practice,[22][7]have been translated into more than 40 languages as of January 2022.[62]In 1986 Nhất Hạnh foundedParallax Press,anonprofitbook publisherand part of thePlum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism.[63]

During his long exile, Nhất Hạnh's books were often smuggled into Vietnam, where they had been banned.[7]

Later activism[edit]

In 2014, major Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders met to sign a shared commitment against modern-day slavery; the declaration they signed called for the elimination of slavery and human trafficking by 2020. Nhất Hạnh was represented by Chân Không.[64]

Nhất Hạnh was known torefrain from consuming animal productsas a means of nonviolence toward animals.[65][35]

Christiana Figuereshas said that Nhất Hạnh helped her overcome a personal crisis and develop the deep listening and empathy required to facilitate theParis Agreementonclimate change.[66]

Relations with Vietnamese governments[edit]

Nhất Hạnh's relationship with the government of Vietnam varied over the years. He stayed away from politics, but did not support the South Vietnamese government's policies of Catholicization. He questioned American involvement, putting him at odds with the Saigon leadership,[39][40]which banned him from returning to South Vietnam while he was abroad in 1966.[5]

His relationship with the communist government ruling Vietnam was tense due to its atheism. The communist government viewed him with skepticism, distrusted his work with theoverseas Vietnamesepopulation, and restricted his praying requiem on several occasions.[67]

Return visits to Vietnam 2005–2007[edit]

See also:Bat Nha

In 2005, after lengthy negotiations, the Vietnamese government allowed Nhất Hạnh to return for a visit. He was also allowed to teach there, publish four of his books in Vietnamese, and travel the country with monastic and lay members of his Order, including a return to his root temple, Tu Hieu Temple in Huế.[5][68]Nhất Hạnh arrived on 12 January after 39 years in exile.[13]The trip was not without controversy. Thich Vien Dinh, writing on behalf of the bannedUnified Buddhist Church of Vietnam(UBCV), called for Nhất Hạnh to make a statement against the Vietnamese government's poor record on religious freedom. Vien Dinh feared that the government would use the trip as propaganda, suggesting that religious freedom is improving there, while abuses continue.[69][70][71]

Thích Nhất Hạnh during his 2007 trip to Vietnam

Despite the controversy, Nhất Hạnh returned to Vietnam in 2007, while the heads of the UBCV,Thich Huyen QuangandThich Quang Do,remained under house arrest. The UBCV called his visit a betrayal, symbolizing his willingness to work with his co-religionists' oppressors. Võ Văn Ái, a UBCV spokesman, said, "I believe Thích Nhất Hạnh's trip is manipulated by the Hanoi government to hide its repression of the Unified Buddhist Church and create a false impression of religious freedom in Vietnam."[67]The Plum Village website listed three goals for his 2007 trip to Vietnam: to support new monastics in his Order; to organize and conduct "Great Chanting Ceremonies" intended to help heal remaining wounds from the Vietnam War; and to lead retreats for monastics and laypeople. The chanting ceremonies were originally called "Grand Requiem for Praying Equally for All to Untie the Knots of Unjust Suffering",but Vietnamese officials objected, calling it unacceptable for the government to" equally "pray for South Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers. Nhất Hạnh agreed to change the name to" Grand Requiem For Praying ".[67]During the 2007 visit, Nhất Hạnh suggested ending government control of religion to PresidentNguyen Minh Triet.[72]A provincialpolice officerlater spoke to a reporter about this incident, accusing Nhất Hạnh of breakingVietnamese law.The officer said, "[Nhất Hạnh] should focus on Buddhism and keep out of politics."[73]

During the 2005 visit, Nhất Hạnh 's followers were invited by Abbot Duc Nghi, a member of the officialBuddhist Sangha of Vietnam,to occupy Bat Nha monastery and continue their practice there.[73]Nhất Hạnh's followers say that during a sacred ceremony atPlum Village Monasteryin 2006, Nghi received atransmissionfrom Nhất Hạnh and agreed to let them occupy Bat Nha.[72]Nhất Hạnh's followers spent $1 million developing the monastery, building a meditation hall for 1,800 people.[73]The government support initially given to his supporters is now believed to have been a ploy to get Vietnam off theUS State Department'sReligious Freedomblacklist,improve chances of entry into theWorld Trade Organization,and increaseforeign investment.[74]

In 2008, during an interview in Italian television, Nhất Hạnh made some statements regarding theDalai Lamathat his followers claim upset Chinese officials, who in turn put pressure on the Vietnamese government. The chairman of Vietnam's national Committee on Religious Affairs sent a letter that accused Nhat Hanh's organization of publishing false information about Vietnam on its website. It was written that the posted information misrepresented Vietnam's policies on religion and could undermine national unity. The chairman requested that Nhất Hạnh's followers leave Bat Nha. The letter also stated that Abbot Duc Nghi wanted them to leave.[73]"Duc Nghi is breaking a vow that he made to us... We have videotapes of him inviting us to turn the monastery into a place for worship in the Plum Village tradition, even after he dies — life after life. Nobody can go against that wish," said Brother Phap Kham.[72]In September and October 2009, a standoff developed, which ended when authorities cut the power, and followed up with police raids augmented by mobs assembled through gang contacts. The attackers used sticks and hammers to break in and dragged off hundreds of monks and nuns.[74][75]"Senior monks were dragged like animals out of their rooms, then left sitting in the rain until police dragged them to the taxis where ‘black society’ bad guys pushed them into cars," a villager said in a phone interview.[75]Two senior monks had their IDs taken and were put underhouse arrestwithout charges in their home towns.[75]

Religious approach and influence[edit]

Main article:Plum Village Tradition
Rewata Dhamma,Sangharakshita,and Nhất Hạnh(l-r)in Berlin, 1992

Engaged Buddhism[edit]

Nhất Hạnh combined a variety of teachings ofEarly Buddhist schools,Mahayana,Zen,and ideas from Western psychology to teachmindfulness of breathingand thefour foundations of mindfulness,offering a modern perspective on meditation practice.[citation needed]

Nhất Hạnh has also been a leader in theEngaged Buddhismmovement[1](he is credited with coining the term[76]), promoting the individual's active role in creating change. He credited the 13th-century Vietnamese EmperorTrần Nhân Tôngwith originating the concept. Trần Nhân Tông abdicated his throne to become a monk and founded the Vietnamese Buddhist school of the Bamboo Forest tradition.[77]He also called it Applied Buddhism in later years to emphasize its practical nature.[citation needed]

Mindfulness Trainings[edit]

Nhất Hạnh rephrased thefive preceptsfor lay Buddhists, which were traditionally written in terms of refraining from negative activities, such as committing to taking positive action to prevent or minimize others' negative actions. For example, instead of merely refraining from stealing, Nhất Hạnh wrote, "prevent others from profiting from human suffering or the suffering of other species on Earth" by, for example, taking action against unfair practices or unsafe workplaces.[78]

According to Plum Village, Manifesto 2000, introduced by UNESCO, was largely inspired by their five mindfulness trainings.[79][80]In keeping with the northern tradition of Bodhisattva precepts, Nhất Hạnh wrote the fourteen mindfulness trainings for the Order of Interbeing based on the ten deeds.[81]He also updated theDharmaguptakaVinaya for Plum Village monastics while keeping its number of rules, 250 for monks and 348 for nuns.[82]

Interbeing[edit]

Nhất Hạnh developed the English term "interbeing"by combining the prefix" inter- "with the verb" to be "to denote the interconnection of all phenomena.[83]This was inspired by the Chinese word tương tức in MasterFa Zang's "Golden Lion Chapter",[84]aHuayansummary of theAvatamsaka Sutra.Some scholars believed it was a presentation of thePrajnaparamita,which "is often said to provide a philosophical foundation" for Zen.[85][86]Nhất Hạnh was also known for expressing deep teachings through simple phrases or parables. "The sun my heart", for instance, was an insight of meditation on the interdependence of all things. He used "no mud no lotus" to illustrate the interrelationship between awakening and afflictions, well-being and ill-being. "A cloud never dies", on the other hand, is a contemplation of phenomena beyond birth and death. To teach non-duality, he often told the story of his left and right hand. His meditation on aimlessness (apranihita) was told through the story of a river. The relationship between waves and water explained the Dharma Realm of Unobstructed Interpenetration of Truth and Phenomena.[87]

A new translation of theHeart Sutra[edit]

Nhất Hạnh completed new English and Vietnamese translations of theHeart Sutrain September 2014.[88]In a letter to his students,[88]he said he wrote these new translations because he thought that poor word choices in the original text had resulted in significant misunderstandings of these teachings for almost 2,000 years.[88]

Manifestation-Only Teaching[edit]

Continuing theYogācāraand Dharmalaksana school, Nhất Hạnh composed the "fifty verses on the nature of consciousness". He preferred calling the teaching manifestation-only (vijnapti-matrata) rather than consciousness-only (vijnana-matrata) to avoid misintepretation into a kind of idealism.[citation needed]

Thích Nhất Hạnh inVught,theNetherlands,2006

The Father of Mindfulness[edit]

Called "the Father of Mindfulness",[4]Nhất Hạnh has been credited as one of the main figures in bringing Buddhism to the West, and especially for making mindfulness well known in the West.[89]According to James Shaheen, the editor of the American Buddhist magazineTricycle: The Buddhist Review,"In the West, he's an icon. I can't think of a Western Buddhist who does not know of Thich Nhất Hạnh."[5]His 1975 bookThe Miracle of Mindfulnesswas credited with helping to "lay the foundations" for the use of mindfulness in treating depression through "mindfulness-based cognitive therapy", influencing the work of University of Washington psychology professorMarsha M. Linehan,the originator ofdialectical behavior therapy(DBT).[4]J. Mark G. Williamsof Oxford University and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre has said, "What he was able to do was to communicate the essentials of Buddhist wisdom and make it accessible to people all over the world, and build that bridge between the modern world of psychological science and the modern healthcare system and these ancient wisdom practices – and then he continued to do that in his teaching."[4]One of Nhất Hạnh's students,Jon Kabat-Zinn,developed themindfulness-based stress reductioncourse that is available at hospitals and medical centres across the world,[21]and as of 2015, around 80% of medical schools are reported to have offered mindfulness training.[90]As of 2019, it was reported that mindfulness as espoused by Nhất Hạnh had become the theoretical underpinning of a $1.1 billion industry in the U.S. One survey determined that 35% of employers used mindfulness in practices in the workplace.[21]

Interfaith dialogue[edit]

Nhất Hạnh was known for his involvement ininterfaith dialogue,which was not common when he began. He was noted for his friendships withMartin Luther King Jr.andThomas Merton,and King wrote in his Nobel nomination for Nhất Hạnh, "His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity".[91]Merton wrote an essay forJubileein August 1966 titled "Nhất Hạnh Is My Brother", in which he said, "I have far more in common with Nhất Hạnh than I have with many Americans, and I do not hesitate to say it. It is vitally important that such bonds be admitted. They are the bonds of a new solidarity... which is beginning to be evident on all five continents and which cuts across all political, religious and cultural lines to unite young men and women in every country in something that is more concrete than an ideal and more alive than a program."[91]The same year, Nhất Hạnh met withPope Paul VIand the pair called on Catholics and Buddhists to help bring about world peace, especially relating to the conflict in Vietnam.[91]According to Buddhism scholar Sallie B. King, Nhất Hạnh was "extremely skilled at expressing their teachings in the language of a kind of universal spirituality rather than a specifically Buddhist terminology. The language of this universal spirituality is the same as the basic values that they see expressed in other religions as well".[92]

Final years[edit]

Nhất Hạnh with monks and nuns at the Plum Village in Thailand

In November 2014, Nhất Hạnh experienced a severebrain hemorrhageand was hospitalized.[93][94]After months of rehabilitation, he was released from the stroke rehabilitation clinic atBordeaux Segalen University.In July 2015, he flew to San Francisco to speed his recovery with an aggressive rehabilitation program at UCSF Medical Center.[95]He returned to France in January 2016.[96]After spending 2016 in France, Nhất Hạnh travelled to Thai Plum Village.[97]He continued to see both Eastern and Western specialists while in Thailand,[97]but was unable to verbally communicate for the remainder of his life.[97]

In November 2018, a press release from the Plum Village community confirmed that Nhất Hạnh, then 92, had returned to Vietnam a final time and would live at Từ Hiếu Temple for "his remaining days". In a meeting with senior disciples, he had "clearly communicated his wish to return to Vietnam using gestures, nodding and shaking his head in response to questions".[11]In January 2019, a representative of Plum Village, Sister True Dedication, wrote:

Thầy's health has been remarkably stable, and he is continuing to receive Eastern treatment and acupuncture. When there's a break in the rains, Thay comes outside to enjoy visiting the Root Temple's ponds and stupas, in his wheelchair, joined by his disciples. Many practitioners, lay and monastic, are coming to visit Tu Hieu, and there is a beautiful, light atmosphere of serenity and peace, as the community enjoys practicing together there in Thay's presence.[98]

While it was clear Nhất Hạnh could no longer speak, Vietnamese authorities assigned plainclothes police to monitor his activities at the temple.[99]

Death[edit]

Altar of Thích Nhất Hạnh and his predecessors

Nhất Hạnh died at his residence in Từ Hiếu Temple on 22 January 2022, at age 95, as a result of complications from hisstrokeseven years earlier.[2][12][62]His death was widely mourned by various Buddhist groups in and outside Vietnam. TheDalai Lama,South Korean PresidentMoon Jae-inand theU.S. State Departmentalso issued words of condolence.[100][101][102]

His five-day funeral,[62]which began on the day of his death, had a seven-day wake[103]that culminated with his cremation on 29 January. In a 2015 book, Nhất Hạnh described what he wanted for the disposition of his remains, in part to illustrate how he believes that he "continues" on in his teachings:

I have a disciple in Vietnam who wants to build a stupa for my ashes when I die. He and others want to put a plaque with the words, "Here lies my beloved teacher." I told them not to waste the temple land...I suggested that, if they still insist on building a stupa, they have the plaque say,I am not in here.But in case people don't get it, they could add a second plaque,I am not out there either.If still people don't understand, then you can write on the third and last plaque,I may be found in your way of breathing and walking.[104]

At the conclusion of the 49-day mourning period, Nhất Hạnh's ashes were portioned and scattered in Từ Hiếu Temple and temples associated with Plum Village.[citation needed]

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Awards and honours[edit]

Nobel laureateMartin Luther King Jr.nominated Nhất Hạnh for theNobel Peace Prizein 1967.[41]The prize was not awarded that year.[105]Nhất Hạnh was awarded the Courage of Conscience award in 1991.[106]

Nhất Hạnh received 2015'sPacem in TerrisPeace and Freedom Award.[107][108]

In November 2017, theEducation University of Hong Kongconferred an honorary doctorate upon Nhất Hạnh for his "lifelong contributions to the promotion of mindfulness, peace and happiness across the world". As he was unable to attend the ceremony in Hong Kong, a simple ceremony was held on 29 August 2017, in Thailand, where John Lee Chi-kin, vice-president (academic) of EdUHK, presented the honorary degree certificate and academic gown to Nhất Hạnh on the university's behalf.[109][110]

In popular culture[edit]

Films[edit]

Nhất Hạnh has been featured in many films, including:

Graphic novel[edit]

Along withAlfred HasslerandChân Không,Nhất Hạnh is the subject of the 2013 graphic novelThe Secret of the 5 Powers.[115]

See also[edit]

Explanatory notes[edit]

  1. ^Buddhist monastery andZen center;a secluded retreat originally intended for wandering monks

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