Tributes flow in from all over the world for ‘father of mindfulness’


Peace advocates: Dr Martin Luther King Jr (left), in a Chicago news conference with Hanh (centre), suggests a halt in bombing of Vietnam on May 31, 1966. — AP

Thousands of mourners packed a pagoda in Vietnam’s Buddhist heartland to pay tribute to the late Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, credited with bringing mindfulness to the West.

The Zen master, whose reach within Buddhism was seen as second only to the Dalai Lama, died aged 95 on Saturday at the Tu Hieu Pagoda in the city of Hue.

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