The Photograph That Generated So Much Emotion Around The World

The burning Monk

Malcolm Browne’s photograph of Quang Duc during his self-immolation.

The photograph above of a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk burning himself to death is a famous photograph taken by Malcolm Browne on 11 June, 1963. The monk’s name was Quang Duc and his self-immolation was done in protest to the South Vietnamese Roman Catholic government led by Ngo Dinh Diem, for the persecutions of Buddhists in…