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    The Lợi Pagoda (Vietnamese: Chùa Lợi [saː˦˥ ləːj˨˩˨] SAW-LIE; chữ Hán: 舍利寺) is the largest pagoda in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam. It was built in...
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    The Lợi Pagoda raids (Vietnamese pronunciation: [saː˦˥ ləːj˨˩˨] SAW-LIE) were a series of synchronized attacks on various Buddhist pagodas in the major...
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    people gathered outside the Lợi pagoda, only for the ceremony to be postponed. On 19 June, his remains were carried out of Lợi to a cemetery 16 kilometers...
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  • planning raids against Buddhist dissidents who had been organising at the Lợi pagoda, Saigon's largest. The raids involved the deployment of the 5th Division...
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    incident outside Lợi Pagoda the following day. A crowd of around 2,000 people were confronted by police who persisted in ringing the pagoda despite the...
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    known for making such public statements as promising to demolish the Lợi Pagoda and vowing to kill his estranged father-in-law, Trần Văn Chương, who...
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  • fighting the Viet Cong insurgents. His best-known attack was the raid on Lợi pagoda on 21 August 1963, in which hundreds died or disappeared. Tung's main...
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    loyal to Diệm's brother, Nhu, conducted an August raid of the Lợi pagoda in Saigon. Pagodas were vandalized, monks beaten, and the cremated remains of...
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    Chau Tai defended Tan Son Nhut and they were joined by the remnants of the Loi Ho unit. At 07:15 on 30 April, the PAVN 24th Regiment approached the Bay...
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    disguised his men in regular army uniforms and framed the army for the Lợi Pagoda raids several months earlier, in August. At nightfall, Nhung took Tung...
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    attacks Self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức Double Seven Day scuffle Lợi Pagoda raids 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état (reaction) Arrest and assassination...
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    officers arrested but Mậu intervened to protect them. Following the Lợi Pagoda raids, the senior generals started their own plot in earnest, having...
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    the ARVN, raided Buddhist pagodas all over South Vietnam, most notably the Xa Loi pagoda in Saigon, the most sacred pagoda in South Vietnam. The raids...
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    and Tân Bình District. It is the location of Lợi Pagoda, the largest in the city. The Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda is also located in District 3. There are many...
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  • Vovinam Water puppetry Water supply and sanitation in Vietnam Lợi Pagoda Lợi Pagoda raids Yên Bái province Yếm Ỷ Lan Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E...
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    Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm Vạn Hạnh Zen Temple Việt Nam Quốc Tự Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda Lợi Pagoda Báo Quốc Temple Diệu Đế Temple Quốc Ân Temple Thiên Mụ Temple Thuyền...
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    courses on Buddhism at various Saigon temples, including the large Lợi Pagoda, where his class was cancelled mid-session and he was removed due to...
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    that Lợi's monks were targets of assassination by Nhu's men, something that Trueheart rejected, turning down the protection request. Lợi and other...
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    independently in August, and was led by a cousin of Mậu. Following the Lợi Pagoda raids, the senior generals started their own plot in earnest. General...
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    on 21 August, when Nhu's Special Forces raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands of monks and causing a death toll...
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  • Army of the Republic of Vietnam regular forces had perpetrated the Lợi Pagoda raids, which U.S. authorities initially accepted. They showed instead...
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    Thích Quảng Đức (11 June 1963) Double Seven Day scuffle (7 July 1963) Lợi Pagoda raids (21 August 1963) 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état (1–2 November...
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    country. With opposition to Diệm growing, Nhu plotted an attack against Lợi Pagoda, the largest Buddhist centre in Saigon, where the movement was organizing...
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  • government of Ngo Dinh Diem Lợi Pagoda raids August 21, 1963 Many Buddhist temples across South Vietnam, most notably the Lợi Pagoda in Saigon Estimates...
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  • University of Mississippi. August 21 – Cable 243: In the wake of the Lợi Pagoda raids, the Kennedy administration orders the US Embassy, Saigon to explore...
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  • suicide of Getúlio Vargas. 1963 – Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon...
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    protest and denounced his government's anti-Buddhist policies after the Lợi Pagoda raids. He proclaimed there was “not one chance in a hundred for victory”...
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    occurred after special forces loyal to the Ngôs raided the Lợi Pagoda in Saigon in August. The pagoda was vandalized, monks beaten, and the cremated remains...
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    sarira to Vietnamese pagoda". VietnamNet. 2016-01-16. Archived from the original on 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2016-01-18. "Cung nghinh lợi Phật tổ về chùa Hoằng...
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    General Đỗ Cao Trí. On the same night, I Corps forces took part in the Lợi Pagoda raids. Tucker, pp. 526–533. Tucker, Spencer C. (2000). Encyclopedia...
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