Doan Van Bau, a former Vietnamese security officer, says he was appointed by government authorities to be Thich Minh Tue’s bodyguard, but his role appears to be much larger than that. Bau controls ...

A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international. Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 1,650-mile barefoot pilgrimage across Thailand and Myanmar to Buddhist sites in India—if ...

In 1963, the monk Thich Quang Duc soaked himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire to protest the government of the Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. Within a few years, dozens more had killed ...