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Thich Nhat Hanh (center) and followers at Dinh Quan Pagoda in Hanoi last month. The Zen monk is visiting Vietnam after 39 years in exile.
Thich Nhat Hanh (center) and followers at Dinh Quan Pagoda in Hanoi last month. The Zen monk is visiting Vietnam after 39 years in exile. (Photo / Matt Steinglass) Photo / Matt Steinglass

Praying for Hanoi

Some in the US want to export religious freedom to Vietnam

By Matt Steinglass
February 13, 2005

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When Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen monk who has been in exile since leaving his native South Vietnam in 1966, returned to his country last month, he did so on his own terms. (Full article: 1366 words)

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