Thread by @BerniceKing

My father with his friend and ally, #ThichNhatHanh, who died this week. I celebrate and honor Thich Nhat Hanh’s life and global influence for peace.

@nytimes: “A prolific author, poet, teacher and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh was exiled from Vietnam after opposing the war…

…in the 1960s and became a leading voice in a movement he called “engaged Buddhism,” the application of Buddhist principles to political and social reform.” #ThichNhatHanh #MLK #BelovedCommunity

“His connection with the United States began in the early 1960s, when he studied at Princeton University and later lectured at Cornell and Columbia. He influenced the American peace movement, urging the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to oppose the Vietnam War.”
#ThichNhatHanh

[Note: My mother, #CorettaScotKing, encouraged my father to lend his moral support to the global peace movement prior to his dear connection to #ThichNhatHanh] #MLK #BelovedCommunity

“Dr. King nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967, but the prize was not awarded to anyone that year. “I do not personally know of anyone more worthy than this gentle monk from Vietnam,” Dr. King wrote to the Nobel Institute in Norway.” #ThichNhatHanh #MLK

“His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.” #MLK #BelovedCommunity
#ThichNhatHanh