Thich Nhat Hanh — Thầy, "the teacher" — was among the most influential Buddhist teachers of the twentieth century, and the figure who coined the term "Engaged Buddhism." Founder of the Plum Village tradition, the School of Youth for Social Service (with Sister Chân Không), and the Order of Interbeing, he reshaped global Buddhism around mindfulness in daily life, walking meditation, and the radical insight of interbeing.
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967 for his anti-war work, he lived in exile from Vietnam for thirty-nine years and built Plum Village in southwestern France into one of the most influential dharma centres in the world. He returned to his root temple of Tu Hieu in Hue in 2018 and passed away there on 22 January 2022.