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...Premier Ky, victory in Danang was a significant strike toward stability but hardly the end of his troubles. "Certainly the Ky government is stronger today than it was two weeks ago," said one Saigon expert, "but two weeks from now? It is a rash, rash man who would try to predict." For one thing, Buddhist Political Leader Thich Tri Quang was still in Hué, South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, which was in rebel hands...
Until 1963 Nhat Hanh taught Oriental Religions at Columbia University. He studied at both Princeton and Columbia. With the Buddhist uprising against the Diem government, he was called back to Vietnam by Thich Tri Quang, and has stayed there until his present trip...
...possible reason why not could be the "baby Turks"-junior field officers who were rumored to be angry at Ky for caving in to Buddhist demands, and hence might be plotting a coup. An other could be Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang, who seems unlikely to endorse Ky's one-year timetable. Whatever the case, Ky made it clear that although he will honor his pledge to relinquish power to civilians, he will not tolerate a Communist or neutralist regime. "I don't think the elections will result in a Communist or neutralist government," said...
...situation in Viet Nam seems uncomfortably annoying, it is because of our lack of understanding of the hopes, aspirations and desperation of the grassroots Vietnamese behind whom the Buddhists rally. If Thich Tri Quang [April 22] seems wily, militant and unpredictable, it is because of the enigmatic situation he is in, to which we in no small measure have contributed. If Vien Hoa Dao stands as the monument of hope for the Saigon Buddhist masses, Thich Tri Quang most certainly symbolizes the 20th century Vietnamese intellectual desperately attempting to cope with the complexity of modern civilization forced upon...
...acquaintance with the scalp-hunting export of "Americanism" via some missionaries, both religious and political, makes it clear what is so "enigmatic," "devious" and "dangerous" about Thich Tri Quang: he cannot be bought. America will do well to descend from "on top" and get behind him. You say he is "the true native species." How true! Decades of suffering distill the true essence...