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As the zen master who brought mindfulness to the west was carried high on the shoulders of monks at the pagoda. with the smell of incense in the air, thich nhat hanh's coffin was placed in the meditation hall. buddhist monks recited prayers and followers stood in silent contemplation of a remarkable life. the prolific buddhist teacher and poet with a gentle yet powerful voice turned peace activist in the 1960s and opposed the vietnam war. he would end up spending nearly four decades in exile in france. thich nhat hanh persuaded civil rights leader martin luther king to speak out against the co...

Mindfulness". thich nhat hanh was exiled from vietnam in the 1960s after opposing the war. king later nominated thich nhat hanh for a nobel peace prize, describing him as "an apostle of peace and non violence". stay with us on bbc news. still to come: as a bridge collapses in the us city of pittsburgh, president biden promises to fix all the ageing bridges with his infrastructure bill. this is the moment that millions in iran have been waiting for. after his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of ayatollah khomeini on iranian soil. south africa's white government has offered its blac...

Martin luther king to speak out against the conflict. king called him an apostle of peace and nonviolence, and nominated him for the nobel peace prize. you can very well describe the practice of buddhism as the practice of a kind of art, the art of being peace. he spoke several languages, travelled widely and wrote more than 100 books on mindfulness and meditation. he was a pioneer of the zen movement he called �*engaged buddhism�* which influenced many a home of hollywood celebrities and the silicon valley boardrooms. a stroke in 2014 left him unable to speak and four years later, he retu...

Them to turn around and endangering the public while they find and arrest low income and mostly black and brown people. defunding the police and investing in communities is how we achieve public safety. i know you're going to say that's wrong and the politics of it, you have to be pulling your hair out. >> i can't relate to that. that is not the approach we can shake. you can't cut to the bone and expect to have stronger departments, better departments, and safer communities. all the evidence is clear in that. we need to invest. that's how were going to protect families and law enforcement. we...

Ap wire copy off. i took it right into the office. i handed it to him and the president is reading it. and he just slumps. >> dr. martin luther king, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. >> america is shocked and saddened by the brutal slaying tonight of dr. martin luther king. i ask every citizen to reject the blind surveillance that has struck dr. king. >> president johnson immediately got j. edgar hoover on the phone and said we need to find out