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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 3,406,247 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Thích Nhất Hạnh is the 353rd most popular religious figure (up from 593rd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 9th 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.

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  • 3.4M

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  • 69.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 353 out of 2,238. Before him are Pope Eutychian, Pope Adeodatus II, Simeon Stylites, Pope Innocent V, Dionysius the Areopagite, and Pope Clement III. After him are Pope Nicholas III, Kane Tanaka, Pope Marcellus I, Pope Benedict III, Pope Sergius IV, and Pope Marinus II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 16. Before him are Miles Davis, Sathya Sai Baba, Dario Fo, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Klaus Kinski, and Andrzej Wajda. After him are Chuck Berry, René Goscinny, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Hugh Hefner, Paul Bocuse, and Prince Claus of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 2022, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 13. Before him are Jiang Zemin, Vangelis, Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, Leonid Kravchuk, and Francisco Gento. After him are Kane Tanaka, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Madeleine Albright, and Vivienne Westwood.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Thích Nhất Hạnh ranks 6 out of 124. Before him are Ho Chi Minh (1890), Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Amanda Lear (1939), Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911), and Marguerite Duras (1914). After him are Thích Quảng Đức (1897), Bảo Đại (1913), Lê Đức Thọ (1911), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Dương Văn Minh (1916), and Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923).

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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), Nguyễn Văn Thuận (1928), Phạm Minh Mẫn (1934), and Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (1938).

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