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Thich Nhat Hanh guida la comunità nella pratica della meditazione camminata. Plum Village, giugno 2014.
Thich Nhat Hanh pianta un albero della bodhi in India, 2008.
Thich Nhat Hanh ist eine führende Stimme in der buddhistischen Ökologiebewegung. Hier pflanzt er einen Bodhibaum im indischen Himalaya-Gebirge, Mussoorie, 2008.
In Plum Village, c.2004
Thich Nhat Hanh travelled to the US to call for peace in 1966.
Thich Nhat Hanh aged 16 in Huế, Vietnam
Photo taken around 1942, soon after he received novice ordination to enter the monkhood.
Thich Nhat Hanh as a young Dharma Teacher (back row, right) with his students, 1950s.
He taught at the new Ấn Quang Buddhist Institute in Saigon.
Aged 25, shortly after receiving the Bhikshu precepts in 1951.
Teaching children to read and write using a song about the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, early 1960s.
Together with his friends and colleagues, Thich Nhat Hanh developed a social work program for rural development and founded the School of Youth for Social Service.
In 1966, as a young leader in the growing Buddhist peace movement.
He had recently founded Van Hanh University, La Boi Press, the School of Youth for Social Service, and the new Order of Interbeing (based on the traditional bodhisattva precepts). At this time, he was Editor-in-Chief of the leading Buddhist magazine, publishing over 50,000 copies every week.
With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at a joint press conference about the war in Vietnam in Chicago, 31 May 1966.
Speaking out for peace c.1966
Vietnamese refugees aboard the Roland, a ship chartered by Thich Nhat Hanh and his colleagues to rescue people from the seas off Singapore in 1976.
Thich Nhat Hanh in Paris in the 1970s.
Exiled for daring to go abroad to call for peace in 1966, he led the Buddhist Peace Delegation at the Paris Peace Talks.
Thich Nhat Hanh (right) at a Peace March in New York City, 17 June 1982.
In south-west France, early 1980s.
Thich Nhat Hanh and his students found land in south-west France, where they established Plum Village mindfulness practice center in 1982.
Relaxing with his community in Plum Village, south-west France (late 1980s or early 1990s).
Meditation Hall in Plum Village, France, 1990.
Thich Nhat Hanh created meditation halls in the old farm buildings, and began to teach the first generation of meditation practitioners in the West.
Presiding over a „lamp transmission“ ceremony to ordain Dharma Teachers, in Plum Village, 1990.
Thich Nhat Hanh began to ordain his first monastic disciples only in 1988, after 35 years of teaching.
Formal lunch with his growing community of monks, 2011
Thich Nhat Hanh teaching children in Plum Village, Summer 2014.
Teaching during a mindfulness retreat for several hundred people in 2014.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s message focusses on how to nourish joy and happiness, and how to handle pain and sorrow.
Leading a walking meditation, c.2009
Thich Nhat Hanh inviting the bell to sound, Plum Village, 2009.
Thich Nhat Hanh reviewing one of his newly-published books in 2011.
He has written over 100 books of poetry, fiction, sutra translations, Engaged Buddhism practices and meditation handbooks.
At Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, 2005.
In 2005 Thich Nhat Hanh was finally allowed to return to Vietnam after 39 years of exile. Here he is entering the gate at his „root temple“ for the first time since he left in May 1966.
Leading a traditional almsround procession in Huế, Vietnam in 2005.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s European Institute for Applied Buddhism in Waldbröl, Germany, opened in 2008.
Receiving an honorary doctorate from Hong Kong University, May 2014.
In 2012 Thich Nhat Hanh created a training program for teachers, to bring secular „applied ethics“ into the classroom.
Thich Nhat Hanh arriving in Indonesia, 2010.
Vulture Peak, India, 2008.
Transmitting the precepts in the open air on Vulture Peak, one of the Buddha’s sacred sites.
Malaysia, September 2010.
Thich Nhat Hanh listening to his students in Hong Kong, 2013.
Hong Kong Coliseum, 2013
Thich Nhat Hanh addressed an audience of over 10,000.
Chant of compassion, Hong Kong 2013.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s community invoke the name of the Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion.
Trafalgar Square, London. March 31, 2012.
Thich Nhat Hanh led sitting meditation for over 3,000 people in the heart of the British capital.
Broadway, New York City, 2013.
At an exhibition of his calligraphies at ABC Home.
With Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, Washington D.C., September 2013.
Returning to Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, 28 October 2018.
He decided to return to his root temple to spend his remaining days.
Celebrating his 92nd birthday in Thailand, October 2018.
Following a major stroke in November 2014, Thich Nhat Hanh moved to Thailand to join his young disciples from Vietnam at his new Thai Plum Village meditation center.
Gardening at Les Patates Douces („Sweet Potatoes“) near Paris in the 1970s.
Thich Nhat Hanh and his colleagues and students retreated to the small farmstead in 1975. After the Paris Peace Talks ended with the Paris Peace Accords, Thich Nhat Hanh was denied the chance to return to Vietnam.

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