HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died. He was 95.

Born Nguyen Xuan Bao in central Vietnam in 1926, as a young bhikshu, or monk, in the early 1950s Thích Nhất Hạnh became active in a reform effort to renew Vietnamese Buddhism for a modern age.

Thich Tri Quang, a Buddhist monk who wielded formidable political power during the Vietnam War, leading waves of protests that brought down South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and ...

BAYOU LA BATRE, Alabama — Down a gravel road, on the grounds of a Vietnamese Buddhist temple, the statue of a female figure rises 30 feet tall. Her name is Bodhisattva Quan Am.

HANOI — A funeral was held Saturday for the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, a week after the renowned Zen master and peace activist died at the age of 95 in Hue in central Vietnam.

While Buddhism is a minority among faith practices in Louisville, its followers are growing, said Hung Le,a member of Louisville's Vietnamese community board and a retired pilot who served with ...

PORT ARTHUR — Bhante Kassapa is the new, blue-eyed face of Vietnamese Buddhism. The U.S. Air Force veteran, one-time Franciscan monk and former airport communications trainer will this weekend ...

In addition, he founded a Buddhist university, a publishing house, and a peace activist magazine as a way to spread the message of compassion. In 1966, Thich Nhat Hanh traveled to the U.S. and ...

Well into the afternoon hours, members of the Buddhist Vietnamese community from Greater Houston and beyond were still arriving at the center, located in the northern outskirts of the Sugar Land ...

The Vietnamese Buddhist community welcomed the gods into their presence Sunday morning at the Chua Giac Hoa Temple with clanging drums and bells for a celebration to honor parents, both living and ...