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Friday 14 November 2014

Thich Nhat Hanh named Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award recipient






Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is the 2015 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award recipient.
Traditionally, the honoree of this peace prize — based on the 1963 Pacem in Terris encyclical of Pope John XXIII -- journeys to Davenport to receive the award. However, because Thay  is recovering from a severe stroke, Bishop Martin Amos traveled to Deer Park Buddhist Monastery in southern California to present the award.
A designee of Thay and his visiting community of 120 monastics accepted the award on their leader’s behalf on Oct. 31, the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s selection for the same award. The two religious leaders shared a peace and nonviolence bond that influenced the political climate in the late 1960s.

Thay wrote to King in 1965 asking him to publicly denounce the Vietnam War, which the American Civil Rights leader did in his famous 1967 speech at the Riverside Church in New York City. Earlier that year, King nominated Thay for the Nobel Peace Prize, referring to him as “an apostle of peace and non-violence.”

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