Text transcribed from caption: P-29749 BUDDHISTS HONOR MONK WHO TOOK LIFE IN CRISIS HUE, South Vietnam -- Buddhist monks pray at an altar in Hue, South Vietnam, in a service commemorating a novice priest who burned himself to death to protest alleged anti-Buddhist policies of the South Vietnamese government. Five Buddhist clergy took their lives to point up the continuing tension between the Buddhists and the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, a Roman Catholic. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-8D-63-W)

United Press International. (publisher)

1963
August 14, 1963

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 7 x 9 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.

Self-immolation--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Self-immolation--Vietnam--Huế.
Suicide--Vietnam--Huế.
Demonstrations--Vietnam--Huế.
Freedom of religion--Vietnam (Republic)
Buddhist priests--Vietnam--Huế.
Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic)
Memorial service.

Vietnam
Huế.
Vietnam (Republic)
Huế (Vietnam)
Asia--Viet Nam--Tỉnh Thừa Thiên-Huế--Huế

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. P-29749; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_P-29749

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