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Thich Nhat Hanh est une voix de premier plan dans le champ de l’écologie Bouddhiste Nous le voyons ici planter un arbre de la Bodhi à Mussoorie, dans la partie indienne de l’Himalaya en 2008.
틱낫한 스님은 불교 생태학을 위한 목소리를 내고 계십니다. 이 사진은 2008년 인도 히말라야 무수리 지역에 보리수를 심고 계신 모습입니다.
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Thich Nhat Hanh est un érudit bouddhiste reconnu.
Thich Nhat Hanh has made modern English, French and Vietnamese translations of some of Buddhism’s most important texts, including the Heart Sutra, the Anapanasati and Satipatthana Sutras, and the Buddhist monastic code.
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Thich Nhat Hanh dans la salle du Bouddha du Hameau Nouveau au Village des Pruniers.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Dharma Teacher in the Vietnamese Zen Tradition of the Liễu Quán Dharma line in the 42nd generation of the Linji (Rinzai) School.
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Thich Nhat Hanh dirigeant une marche pour la paix réunissant plusieurs milliers de personnes à Paris en 2006
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Préparation de la salle de méditation . Village des Pruniers, France
With over 200 resident monks and nuns, Plum Village has the largest Buddhist monastic community in the West.
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Thich Nhat Hanh au Parlement d’Irlande du Nord en 2012.
Thich Nhat Hanh was invited to speak in the Senate Chamber at Stormont on 17th April 2012. He was hosted by Mindfulness Ireland and welcomed by Stormont Junior Minister and former IRA inmate, Martina Anderson, who had cherished his book “The Miracle of Mindfulness” during her time in jail.
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Thich Nhat Hanh avec des moines de la tradition Théravada en 2007
Thich Nhat Hanh’s modernised Buddhist teachings have been well received in Thailand, in particular at the Mahachulalongkorn University, the world’s largest Buddhist university.
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Thich Nhat Hanh ldirige la méditation assise à Trafalgar Square à Londres
Over 4,000 people joined a guided sitting meditation led by Thich Nhat Hanh in the heart of the capital on 31st March, 2012.
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Thich Nhat Hanh inviting the bell in Lower Hamlet, France – 2014
La pratique de l’arrêt et de la respiration avec le son de la cloche, développée par Thich Nhat Hanh, a maintenant été adoptée par des pratiquants de la pleine conscience dans le monde entier.
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Thich Nhat Hanh écrivant des calligraphies dans sa Hutte au Village des Pruniers, France (vers 2009)
His Zen calligraphies have been exhibited in New York, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bangkok, Germany and France.
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Thich Nhat Hanh accueilli en Indonésie en 2010
In the 2010s Thich Nhat Hanh’s popularity in South-East Asia grew rapidly. Thousands attended his public talks on teaching tours to Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: mudra de la compassion
This photo was taken while his monks and nuns were offering the compassion chant at his European Institute of Applied Buddhism in Germany (circa 2009).
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Soeur Chan Khong et les moniales bouddhistes de sa communauté lors d’une tournée d’aumône pendant une tournée d’enseignements en Indonésie en 2010. Thich Nhat Hanh a revu le code monastique et a accepté totalement la présence des moniales dans toutes les fonctions de la communauté, que ce soit pour enseigner, travailler, prendre des décisions et diriger des cérémonies. Cela fait de sa communauté une des sangha les plus progressiste du monde.
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Soeur Chan Khong, disciple de longue date de Thich Nhat Hanh et sa collaboratrice, à Hong Kong en 2013.
During the Wesak (Buddha’s Birthday) celebrations at Lotus Pond Temple (Asian Institute of Applied Buddhism) on Lantau Island, part of the international Plum Village network of temples and practice centers.
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Enfants jouant avec les moines Village des Pruniers , France.
Plum Village welcomes hundreds of children and families every summer, to experience the joy of mindful living, play and meditation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. défilant en 1967 sous une bannière vietnamienne portant une citation de Thich Nhat Hanh
The banner reads: “Men are not our enemies. If we kill men, with whom shall we live?” Thich Nhat Hanh had first written to Dr. King with this question in 1965. They met for the first time a year later, in 1966 in Chicago, and again in May 1967 in Geneva. Dr. King decisively came out against the war in a speech in NYC on April 4 1967, and quoted Thich Nhat Hanh in that speech.
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Thich Nhat Hanh en 1966
Thich Nhat Hanh was a leading figure in the Buddhist peace movement in Vietnam. In the year before this photo was taken, he had founded Van Hanh University, a publishing house (La Boi Press), the School of Youth for Social Service, and a new Buddhist Order (the Order of Interbeing).
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Défilant pour le désarmement nucléaire à New York, le 17 Juin 1982.
Thich Nhat Hanh was in New York in 1982 to lead a meditation and mindfulness retreat, and together everyone on the retreat joined the march. L to R: Lewis Richmond, Richard Baker Roshi, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Several years later, Thich Nhat Hanh reflected, “There was a lot of anger in the peace movement. We should not walk “for” peace. We should “be” peace as we walk.”
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Thich Nhat Hanh arrive au Temple Từ Hiếu de Huế en 2005, après près de 40 ans d’exil.
Từ Hiếu Temple is Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Root Temple” in Vietnam. He received novice ordination there under Zen Master Chân Thật when he was 16 years old, and received the Dharma Lamp there in 1966.
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Thich Nhat Hanh reçoit un doctorat honoris causa de l’université de Hong Kong en 2014.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings on bringing mindfulness and “applied ethics” into education settings have been taken up around the world.
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Thich Nhat Hanh revient au Vietnam en 2005 après 39 ans d’exil. Nous le voyons ici diriger une tournée d’aumône.
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Moines et laïcs au Hameau du Haut, Village des Pruniers, France
Over 10,000 people every year visit Plum Village to participate in retreats and “days of mindfulness.”
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La colline des Bouddhas au Village des Pruniers, France
Stone Buddhas at Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village Practice Center in south-west France.
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Thich Nhat Hanh avec Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
At a joint press conference on 31 May 1966 Chicago Sheraton Hotel.
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© Thich Nhat Hanh au Village des Pruniers in 2016
Following his stroke and treatment in Bordeaux and San Francisco, Thich Nhat Hanh returned to Plum Village in 2016 and was present for the ceremony to open the 3-month Rains Retreat.
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Thich Nhat Hanh teaching village children in rural Vietnam, 1964.
Thich Nhat Hanh pioneered Buddhist engagement in social work and rural development, founding in 1965 the School of Youth for Social Service in Vietnam, a kind of Peace Corps. Here he is in October 1964 teaching rural children to read and write using a song about the bodhisattva of compassion.