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.