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Thích Quảng Đức

A Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhistmonk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Roman Catholic government led by Ngô Đình Diệm.  

After his death, his body was re-cremated, but his heart remained intact.