The best thing you’ll watch today. WARNING: Language
That man on the cover of the Rage album is Thích Quảng Đức, a 65-year old Vietnamese Buddhist monk who set himself on fire near a busy Saigon street on June 11th, 1963. His self-immolation was an act of protest against the torture of monks, desecration of religious sites, forced conversions, rape, among other repressive and anti-Buddhist crimes, committed by the Roman Catholic government. These images are graphic, but among the most powerful in the world. Notice that he retained the Lotus posture during the entire time he remained alive:
