EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
A man of peace talks about war
In an interview with Suthichai Yoon, the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh discusses Zen Buddhism's responses to wayward youth, Iraq and his Vietnamese homeland
Thich Nhat Hanh, the 81-year-old Zen master from Vietnam who lives in exile in France but has been leading "peace walks" in Bangkok this month, has been called the world's most famous Buddhist monk after the Dalai Lama.
He is in Thailand, where dozens of his books have been translated, for Visakha Bucha Day and to offer blessings for His Majesty the King's upcoming 80th birthday.
On the eve of his speech on "Buddhist Contributions to Good Governance" at Bangkok's UN Conference Centre next Monday, he taped a segment of Nation Group editor Suthichai Yoon's "Cheepajorn Loke" ("World Pulse") programme to be televised on Channel 9 on Monday at 10pm and again on June 4.
Read excerpts from the interview.
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