Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - 2022) 

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered around the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace.​

Thich Nhat Hanh's key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live happily in the present moment—the only way to truly develop peace, both in one’s self and in the world.  He has published over 100 titles on meditation, mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism, as well as poems, children’s stories, and commentaries on ancient Buddhist texts. He has sold over three million books in America alone, some of the best-known include Being Peace, Peace Is Every Step, The Miracle of Mindfulness, The Art of Power, True Love and Anger.

Thich Nhat Hanh,  has been a pioneer in bringing Buddhism to the West, founding six monasteries and dozens of practice centers in America and Europe, as well as over 1,000 local mindfulness practice communities, known as ‘sanghas’. 

He has built a thriving community of over 600 monks and nuns worldwide, who, together with his tens of thousands of lay students, apply his teachings on mindfulness, peace-making and community-building in schools, workplaces, businesses – and even prisons – throughout the world.

Born in 1926, Thich Nhat Hanh, known as Thay to his disciples, has been a humble monk for more than 70 years. In 1967, Martin Luther King nominated Thay for the Noble Peace Prize calling him “An Apostle of peace and nonviolence”.
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In 1966,  Thich Nhat Hanh traveled for the second time to the U.S. and Europe, in order to make the case for peace and to call for an end to hostilities in the Vietnam war. It was during this trip that he first met Dr Martin Luther King Jr., who nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. Yet as a result of this mission both North and South Vietnam denied him the right to return to Vietnam, and he began a long exile of 39 years, which ended in 2005.

More than 50 years later, the  Dr King's and Thay's Conversation continues:  
Beloved Community: Kingian Nonviolence and the Plum Village Tradition.   A Conversation from Deer Park Monastery between Dharma Teacher Kenley Neufeld and Kazu Haga of East Point Peace Academy.   https://vimeo.com/470842696

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 “One Action”. Peace.
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In recent years Thay has led events for the US Congress; has addressed UNESCO calling for specific steps to reverse the cycle of violence, war and global warming; and has led high-profile mindfulness events at Google, The World Bank and the Harvard School of Medicine.  His     Dharma Title, Nhat Hanh, means “One Action”.   

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