Thich Quang Duc’s Car

Thich Quang Duc’s Car, originally uploaded by andyspex.

The next stop on our tour was to Hue, Vietnam’s old Capital city. We had a motorbike tour of the city and went to a monastery and temple.

In this temple was the car belonging to Thic Quang Duc, now a Bhudddist saint. He was the Buddhist Monk that burnt himself alive in the street in Saigon in protest at the South Vietnam governments persecution of Buddhists.

Malcolm Browne’s famous photograph of this has become world famous and was also used on the cover of the album Rage Against The Machine by Rage Against The Machine.