This video was spontaneously created during the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions, Melbourne.  As the creator states:

“The day before the end of the parliament, I viewed a 10 minute video telling the story of the atrocities that have occurred at the Bat Nha Monasteries in Viet Nam. After the video, a number of us continued in a meeting to discuss what we had just seen and what we could possibly do about it. One of the ideas we came up with was to video tape parliament participants the next morning sending their support and blessings from the parliament and post them on YouTube for the monks and nuns from Bat Nha (and hopefully many others) to be able to see.” –Hal Martin

Click Here to view the address by the Most Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh and the short video about Bat Nha.

For more information about Bat Nha Monastery, please visit www.helpbatnha.org

The Most Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh’s powerful and timely address to the parliament: A Collective Awakening for the Future of Our Planet.  Click Here to watch the talk.

Following the presentation of the talk at the parliament, Brother Phap Kham presented a short video documenting recent events concerning the Bat Nha community in Vietnam.  A link to that video can be found here.

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