Vietnamese Zen master and founder of Plum Village. The teacher of engaged Buddhism.
Vietnamese Zen master (1926-2022), poet, founder of the School of Youth for Social Service during the war, exiled for nearly forty years for his refusal to take sides, founder of Plum Village in southwest France, author of more than a hundred books. He gave the modern world the phrase "engaged Buddhism" and made mindfulness — sati — a global practice.
The twentieth-century movement that carries the Buddhist insights of interdependence, non-self, and compassion directly into social, political, ecological, and economic action — coined by Thich Nhat Hanh in war-time Vietnam, now a global lay-monastic ethic.
The meditation school that strips Mahayana to its experiential core: a special transmission outside the scriptures, not founded on words and letters; pointing directly at the human mind, seeing into one's own nature, attaining buddhahood.
