THICH NAHT HANH, BAT NHA, ZEN
Thích Nhất Hạnh pronounced [tʰǐk ɲə̌t hâːˀɲ] ( listen); born October 11, 1926 in central Vietnam) is an expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. The title Thích is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan. In the early 1960s he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon. This grassroots relief organization rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, established medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War. He traveled to the U.S. to study at Princeton University, and later to lecture at Cornell University and Columbia University. His main focus at the time however, was to urge the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam. He urged Martin Luther King, Jr. to publicly oppose the Vietnam War; King nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize (January, 1967).
Thich Nhat Hanh has become an important influence in the development of Western Buddhism. His teachings and practices aim to appeal to people from various religious, spiritual, and political backgrounds, intending to offer mindfulness practices for more Western sensibilities.He created the Order of Interbeing in 1966, establishing monastic and practice centers around the world. As of 2007 his home is the Plum Village Monastery in the Dordogne region in the South of France and he travels internationally giving retreats and talks. He coined the term Engaged Buddhism in his book Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire. Read More: > HERE <
„Peace is every step“ — Thich Nhat Hanh (1991)
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet, scholar, and an activist for human rights and world peace. In 1967, Nhat Hanh was nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for the Nobel Peace Prize. Unfortunately, no Peace Prize was awarded that year. Nhat Hanh is the author of more than 100 books, including „Being Peace“ and „Peace is Every Step“. This Facebook group was started to propose that Thich Nhat Hanh should be nominated as a Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize 2010.
Zen is a school of MahÄyÄna Buddhism, translated from the Chinese word Chán to Japanese. This word is in turn derived from the Sanskrit dhyÄna, which means „meditation“ (see etymology below).
Zen emphasizes experiential prajñÄ, particularly as realized in the form of meditation, in the attainment of enlightenment. As such, it de-emphasizes theoretical knowledge in favor of direct, experiential realization through meditation and dharma practice.
The establishment of Zen is traditionally credited to be in China, the Shaolin Temple, by the Southern Indian Pallava prince-turned-monk Bodhidharma, who came to China to teach a „special transmission outside scriptures“ which „did not stand upon words“. The emergence of Zen as a distinct school of Buddhism was first documented in China in the 7th century AD. It is thought to have developed as an amalgam of various currents in MahÄyÄna Buddhist thought — among them the YogÄcÄra and MÄdhyamaka philosophies and the PrajñÄpÄramitÄ literature — and of local traditions in China, particularly Taoism and Huáyán Buddhism. From China Zen subsequently spread south to Vietnam, and east to Korea and Japan. Read More: > HERE <
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