Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm. "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one." - JFK Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the monk's death. #fire #smoke #burningman #famous #monk #monkonfire #history #protest #emotion #Buddhist #Vietnamese #vietnamwar #worldfamousphotograph #pulitzer #pulitzerprize #photograph #war #awardwinning #PlotagraphPro #Plotagraph #Plotagraphs #PlotagraphSocial #plotagraphdaily #PlotagraphPlus #instadaily #amazing #artofvisuals #visualoflife Text by Wikipedia Animation by @chadspacey Photograph by Malcolm Browne Tools @PlotagraphPlus
