' It was an act of protest over discrimination towards Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. Importantly, it was organised as a spectacle and was deliberately intended to attract the attention of the media.

How many Buddhists have self immolated?

More than 150 Tibetans have self-immolated since Tapey.

What was the purpose of the burning monk?

In June of 1963, in a busy street in Saigon, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death as a protest to the South Vietnamese Diem regime's discriminatory Buddhist laws. He hope to show that to fight all form of oppression, a sacrifice must be made.