Vietnam's highest-profile religious detainee has sent a letter of
support to the Dalai Lama after a series of self-immolations by
Tibetans, saying China's crackdown on Tibetan areas was a challenge to
all humanity, a Buddhist group said on Thursday.
Activist monk
Thich Quang Do invoked one of the best known cases of a self-immolation
by a Buddhist monk, the 1963 burning of Thich Quang Duc in Saigon,
captured in an iconic black-and-white photo, which "shook the conscience
of the world", according to the letter.
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