New statue honors Thich Quang Duc as patriot and bodhisattva

Vietnam’s Thich Quang Duc — whose self-immolation protesting discrimination against his nation’s Buddhist majority has become one of the defining acts of the Vietnam War era  — has been honored with a new statue that, as VietNamNews reports:

“is 6.3m tall and stands amidst a 2,000sq.m park at the busy intersection of Cach Mang Thang Tam and Nguyen Dinh Chieu streets, where the self-immolation took place.”

It’s beautiful. See it, larger, here.