abstract:Thích Quảng Độ (born 27 November 1928) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, a currently banned religious body in Vietnam.Self-Immolation 'Only Possible Recourse', RFA, 2012-02-17 In 2002, he was awarded the Homo Homini Award for human rights activism by the Czech group People in Need, which he shared with Thích Huyền Quảng and Nguyễn Văn Lý.
One monk, ThichQuangDo, was arrested in October with a group of followers for trying to deliver aid to people stricken by floods, the worst in living memory, in the Mekong delta.