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Thích Nhất Hạnh (; ; born as Nguyen Xuan Bao on October 11, 1926) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He lives in Plum Village in the Dordogne region in the south of France,〔 travelling internationally to give retreats and talks. He coined the term "Engaged Buddhism" in his book ''Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire''.〔 A long-term exile, he was given permission to make his first return trip to Vietnam in 2005.〔 Nhất Hạnh has published more than 100 books, including more than 40 in English. He is active in the peace movement, promoting nonviolent solutions to conflict and he also refrains from animal product consumption as a means of nonviolence towards non-human animals. ==Biography== Born as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Nhất Hạnh was born in the city of Huế in Central Vietnam in 1926. At the age of 16 he entered the monastery at Từ Hiếu Temple near Huế, Vietnam, where his primary teacher was Zen Master Thanh Quý Chân Thật. A graduate of Báo Quốc Buddhist Academy in Central Vietnam, Thích Nhất Hạnh received training in Vietnamese traditions of Mahayana Buddhism as well as Vietnamese Thiền and was ordained as a monk in 1949.〔 In 1956, Nhất Hạnh was named editor-in-chief of ''Vietnamese Buddhism'', the periodical of the Unified Vietnam Buddhist Association ((ベトナム語:Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất)). In the following years he founded Lá Bối Press, the Vạn Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon, and the School of Youth for Social Service (SYSS), a neutral corps of Buddhist peaceworkers who went into rural areas to establish schools, build healthcare clinics, and help rebuild villages.〔 Nhất Hạnh is now recognized as a dharmacharya and as the spiritual head of the Từ Hiếu Pagoda and associated monasteries.〔〔Mau, Thich Chi (1999) "Application for the publication of books and sutras", letter to the Vietnamese Governmental Committee of Religious Affairs, re-printed on the Plum Village website. He is the Elder of the Từ Hiếu branch of the 8th generation of the Liễu Quán lineage in the 42nd generation of the Linji school (臨濟禪, (ベトナム語:Lâm Tế))〕 On May 1, 1966 at Từ Hiếu Temple, he received the "lamp transmission", making him a dharmacharya, from Zen Master Chân Thật.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thích Nhất Hạnh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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