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02-13-2010, 04:58 PM
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 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:2221 Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 210 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 8 Post(s)
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Re: The Self Immolation of a Monk
Someone said this is a re-enactment... then someone said it isn't... it is. Though there are photos there is no film of it happening.
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10-04-2010, 10:07 AM
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 Nowhere Man Poster Rank:75 Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 20,069 Mentioned: 2 Post(s) Quoted: 240 Post(s)
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Re: The Self Immolation of a Monk
Thích Quảng Ðức (1897 – 11 June 1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration. Photos of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diệm regime. Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of the monk's death, as did David Halberstam for his written account. After his death, his body was re-cremated, but his heart remained intact.[citation needed] This was interpreted as a symbol of compassion and led Buddhists to revere him as a bodhisattva, heightening the impact of his death on the public psyche. Thích Quảng Đức's act increased international pressure on Diệm and led him to announce reforms with the intention of mollifying the Buddhists. However, the promised reforms were implemented either slowly or not at all, leading to a deterioration in the dispute. With protests continuing, the Special Forces loyal to Diệm's brother, Ngô Đình Nhu, launched nationwide raids on Buddhist pagodas, seizing the holy heart and causing deaths and widespread damage. Several Buddhist monks followed Thích Quảng Đức's example and burned themselves to death. Eventually, an Army coup toppled and killed Diệm in November. The self-immolation is widely seen as the turning point of the Vietnamese Buddhist crisis which led to the change in regime. Link: (in case embedding doesn't work. Seems like I always fuck that up.) [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MBhe5Wac8"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia] Embedding Attempt: <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d-MBhe5Wac8?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d-MBhe5Wac8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> |
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10-04-2010, 10:51 AM
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| Nowhere Man Poster Rank:75 Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 20,069 Mentioned: 2 Post(s) Quoted: 240 Post(s)
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Re: The Self Immolation of a Monk
<object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d-MBhe5Wac8?fs=1&hl=en_US&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d-MBhe5Wac8?fs=1&hl=en_US&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object>
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#28
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10-04-2010, 11:49 AM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:1040 Male Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 653 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)
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Re: The Self Immolation of a Monk
It sucks trying to embed stuff. We dummies don't know what else to do when it says "copy embed code", and then we paste it, and...nothing happens.
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10-04-2010, 12:06 PM
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 Madonna vergine bugiarda. Poster Rank:437 Male Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2,612 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 11 Post(s)
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Re: The Self Immolation of a Monk
You didn't fuck anything up from what I can see. Sometimes embedding just doesn't work.
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