RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Thích Nhất Hạnh

1926 - 2022

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Thích Nhất Hạnh ( TIK NAHT HAHN; Vietnamese: [tʰǐk̟ ɲə̌t hâjŋ̟ˀ] , Huế dialect: [tʰɨt̚˦˧˥ ɲək̚˦˧˥ hɛɲ˨˩ʔ]; born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo; 11 October 1926 – 22 January 2022) was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism. In the mid-1960s, Nhất Hạnh co-founded the School of Youth for Social Services and created the Order of Interbeing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thích Nhất Hạnh has received more than 3,613,780 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Thích Nhất Hạnh is the 537th most popular religious figure (down from 348th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Religious Figure.

Thích nhất hạnh is most famous for being the monk who lit himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 537 out of 3,187. Before him are Kane Tanaka, Gregory Palamas, Mary of Egypt, Pope Agapetus I, Pope Stephen VI, and Peter the Hermit. After him are Luigi Lucheni, Djet, Saint Marinus, Radha, Pope Stephen II, and Hind bint Utbah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 26. Before him are Nuon Chea, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Hugh Hefner, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Paul Bocuse. After him are Donald A. Glaser, Ivan Illich, Leopoldo Galtieri, George Habash, John Coltrane, and Beji Caid Essebsi. Among people deceased in 2022, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 28. Before him are José Eduardo dos Santos, Francisco Gento, Uwe Seeler, Kane Tanaka, Sidney Poitier, and Dietrich Mateschitz. After him are Angela Lansbury, Lata Mangeshkar, Peter Brook, Wolfgang Petersen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Bruno Latour.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 7 out of 136. Before him are Ho Chi Minh (1890), Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911), Marguerite Duras (1914), Amanda Lear (1939), and Lê Đức Thọ (1911). After him are Thích Quảng Đức (1897), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Bảo Đại (1913), Ieng Sary (1925), Lady Sun (192), and Dương Văn Minh (1916).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Vietnam

Among religious figures born in Vietnam, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 1. After him are Andrew Dũng-Lạc (1795), Ngô Đình Thục (1897), Nguyễn Văn Thuận (1928), Phạm Minh Mẫn (1934), Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (1938), and Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn (1921).

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