{"id":122316,"date":"2022-01-22T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122316"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T23:06:07","slug":"father-of-mindfulness-buddhist-monk-dies-aged-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/22\/father-of-mindfulness-buddhist-monk-dies-aged-95\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Father of mindfulness&#8217; Buddhist monk dies aged 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.ceylontoday.lk\/images\/2022\/01\/OJwJW4ENF6zFQOjcCiqio2KcldclQ1WM.jpg\" alt=\"'Father of mindfulness' Buddhist monk dies aged 95\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thich Nhat Hanh, an influential Vietnamese Buddhist monk, has died at the age of 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Zen teaching organisation, Plum Village, said the monk &#8220;passed away peacefully&#8221; at the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prolific author and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, is often referred to as the &#8220;father of mindfulness&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Twitter, his organisation called for its followers to hold Thich Nhat Hanh &#8220;in our hearts&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thich Nhat Hanh, was exiled from Vietnam in the 1960s after opposing the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the height of the Vietnam War, he met with Martin Luther King, persuading the civil rights leader to speak out against the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King later nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for a Nobel Peace Prize, describing him as &#8220;an apostle of peace and non violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After hearing of the monk&#8217;s death, King&#8217;s daughter Bernice shared an image of the pair together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The monk spent decades in France after being exiled and went on to establish monasteries and meditation centres around the world, known as the Plum Village Tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 books that were translated into more than 40 languages. His last book was published in October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He travelled on regular speaking tours of Europe and the US, talking about the practice of mindfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But his movement was hindered by Vietnam&#8217;s communist government in 2009, when his Zen centre in Lam Dong was forced to close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, he returned to Vietnam and was permitted by authorities to spend his final days at the Tu Hieu temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not yet clear how the government will react to his funeral, which is set to begin in Hue on Saturday and last five days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(BBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today Thich Nhat Hanh, an influential Vietnamese Buddhist monk, has died at the age of 95. His Zen teaching organisation, Plum Village, said the monk &#8220;passed away peacefully&#8221; at the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam on Saturday. A prolific author and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, is often referred to as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}