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==Early life== Nhất Hạnh was born '''Nguyễn Xuân Bảo'''<!-- The Washington Post, Taylor, and Lion's Roar list Nguyen Xuan Bao as his birth name, whereas AP News article "Funeral held in Vietnam for influential monk Thich Nhat Hanh" lists Nguyen Dinh Lang. --> on 11 October 1926, in the ancient capital of [[Huế]] in central [[Vietnam]].<ref name="Taylor2007">{{Cite book|last=Taylor|first=Philip|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtU4H21wdFoC&pg=PA299|title=Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|year=2007|isbn=9789812304407|pages=279–341|chapter=The 2005 Pilgrimage and Return to Vietnam of Exiled Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh|access-date=9 October 2018|archive-date=14 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214010815/https://books.google.com/books?id=mtU4H21wdFoC&pg=PA299|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":5" /><ref name="lionsroar" /> He is 15th generation Nguyễn Đình; the poet [[Nguyễn Đình Chiểu]], author of ''[[Lục Vân Tiên]]'', was his ancestor.<ref name=PVbio /> His father, Nguyễn Đình Phúc, from Thành Trung village in Thừa Thiên, Huế, was an official with the French administration.<ref name=PVbio>{{cite web|url=https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/thich-nhat-hanh-full-biography/|title=Thich Nhat Hanh: 20-page Biography|access-date=22 January 2022|publisher=Plum Village|archive-date=21 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121235036/https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/thich-nhat-hanh-full-biography/|url-status=live}}</ref> His mother, Trần Thị Dĩ, was a homemaker<ref name=":5" /> from Gio Linh district.<ref name=PVbio /> Nhất Hạnh was the fifth of their six children.<ref name=PVbio /> Until he was age five, he lived with his large extended family at his grandmother's home.<ref name=PVbio /> He recalled feeling joy at age seven or eight after he saw a drawing of a peaceful Buddha, sitting on the grass.<ref name="lionsroar" /><ref name=":5" /> On a school trip, he visited a mountain where a hermit lived who was said to sit quietly day and night to become peaceful like the Buddha. They explored the area, and he found a natural well, which he drank from and felt completely satisfied. It was this experience that led him to want to become a Buddhist monk.<ref name=":9" /> At age 12, he expressed an interest in training to become a monk, which his parents, cautious at first, eventually let him pursue at age 16.<ref name="lionsroar" />
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