Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Ðức was a Vietnamese Mahāyāna Buddhist monk who, as a
form of protest against systematic injustices towards Buddhism in South Vietnam,
decided to burn himself to death on a busy street in Saigon, Vietnam, on June
11, 1963.
Video footage of the self-immolation.
Recreation for the 1962 documentary “Mondo Caine”.
