{"id":40946,"date":"2022-01-22T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T00:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/thich-nhat-hanh-revered-zen-buddhist-monk-and-peace-activist-dies-at-95"},"modified":"2022-01-22T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T00:58:20","slug":"thich-nhat-hanh-revered-zen-buddhist-monk-and-peace-activist-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40946","title":{"rendered":"Thich Nhat Hanh, revered Zen Buddhist monk and peace activist, dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual leader rose to prominence as an opponent of the Vietnam war and was lauded by Martin Luther King <\/p>\n<p>Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist who rose to prominence as an opponent of the Vietnam war, has died aged 95 surrounded by his followers in the temple where his spiritual journey began.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Twitter, the International Plum Village community of engaged Buddhism founded by Thich Nhat Hanh said \u201cour beloved teacher passed away peacefully\u201d on Saturday at Tu Hieu temple in Hue, Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/thich-nhat-hanh-revered-zen-buddhist-monk-and-peace-activist-dies-at-95\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual leader rose to prominence as an opponent of the Vietnam war and was lauded by Martin Luther King Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist who rose to prominence as an opponent of the Vietnam war, has died aged 95 su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,211,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-buddhism","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40947,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40946\/revisions\/40947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}