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The Most
Venerable Thich Quang Do
SECRETARY GENERAL
UNIFIED BUDDHIST CHURCH OF VIETNAM
Penalty : House arrest, past
imprisonment
Location : Thien Vien Thanh Minh, 90
Tran Huy Lieu, Q Phu Nhuan, TP HCM, Viet
Nam (Thanh Minh Zen Center, 90 Tran Huy
Lieu Street, District Phu Nhuan, HCM
City, Vietnam)
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Born Dang Phuc
Tue on November 27, 1928, in Thai Binh
province.
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In 1975, after
Vietnam fell under communism, Ven. Thich
Quang Do, as a high ranking leader in the
Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV),
protested against the Revolutionary
government's infringements on religious
freedoms and confiscation of UBCV
properties. Considered "an obstruction" to
the work of the government in religious
matters, he and five other leaders of the
UBCV were arrested in April 1977. They were
tortured and, in October of that year, asked
to admit that they worked for the CIA. Ven.
Thich Quang Do was brought to trial on
December 8, 1978. The government only
charged him with "disturbing the peace and
spreading misinformation" and later released
him.
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To undermine
the UBCV's influence in the population, the
government created its own Buddhist Church
of Vietnam in 1981. Ven. Thich Quang Do and
various other Buddhist leaders were detained
for 24 hours so that the incorporation of
the UBCV into the structure of the state-run
church could proceed.
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The government
then announced the unification of the
Buddhist Church had been "complete" and the
UBCV was declared illegal. That was how the
government justified its arrest on Feb. 25,
1982 of Ven. Thich Quang Do and Thich Huyen
Quang, the two most prominent figures of the
"recalcitrant opposition UBCV." They were
subsequently exiled to separate locations.
Ven. Thich Quang Do was sent to his birth
place of Vu Doai in Thai Binh province. His
mother, then in her 90s, was also exiled
with him and died of cold three years later
in the winter of 1985.
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In March 1992,
after more than ten years of internal exile,
Ven. Thich Quang Do took it upon himself to
return to Saigon. In August 1994, he wrote a
44-page document addressed to Party
General-Secretary Do Muoi detailing the
persecution against the UBCV since the
communists came to power in Vietnam. For
writing this document, he was arrested on
January 4, 1995.
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On August 15,
1995, Ven. Thich Quang Do and five other
monks and laity were tried by the People's
Court of Ho Chi Minh City and convicted of
"sabotaging government policies and damaging
the interests of the state." The chief
evidence was the defendants' attempt to
organize an emergency food convoy to flood
victims in the Mekong delta and the
distribution of letters written by the
patriarch of the UBCV, who is under house
arrest. Ven. Thich Quang Do received a
prison term of five years.
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He was released
from prison on August 30, 1998. Periodically
detained and interrogated, he decried human
rights abuses in interviews with the foreign
media and letters to world leaders. Widely
respected internationally, he was nominated
for the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize by 200
parliamentarians from the US, Canada,
Australia, France and Belgium.
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In June 2001,
authorities formally placed Venerable Thich
Quang Do under house arrest after he
announced his intention to escort back to
Saigon the 82-year old patriarch of the UBCV
living under house arrest for the last 19
years. Security police currently maintain a
24-hour cordon around the pagoda of
Venerable Thich Quang Do.
http://www.hdvnbtdt.org/article.php3?id_article=110
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