Editing Thích Nhất Hạnh (section)

=== Interfaith dialogue ===
Nhất Hạnh was known for his involvement in [[interfaith dialogue]], which was not common when he began. He was noted for his friendships with [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] and [[Thomas Merton]], and King wrote in his Nobel nomination for Nhất Hạnh, "His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity".<ref name="ncr" /> Merton wrote an essay for ''Jubilee'' in August 1966 titled "Nhất Hạnh Is My Brother", in which he said, "I have far more in common with Nhất Hạnh than I have with many Americans, and I do not hesitate to say it. It is vitally important that such bonds be admitted. They are the bonds of a new solidarity ... which is beginning to be evident on all five continents and which cuts across all political, religious and cultural lines to unite young men and women in every country in something that is more concrete than an ideal and more alive than a program."<ref name="ncr" /> The same year, Nhất Hạnh met with [[Pope Paul VI]] and the pair called on Catholics and Buddhists to help bring about world peace, especially relating to the conflict in Vietnam.<ref name="ncr">{{cite news |title=Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, teacher of mindfulness and nonviolence, dies at age 95 |author=Fox, Thomas C. |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/buddhist-monk-thich-nhat-hanh-teacher-mindfulness-and-nonviolence-dies-age-95 |work=[[National Catholic Reporter]] |date=22 January 2021 |accessdate=24 January 2021 |archive-date=22 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122001028/https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/buddhist-monk-thich-nhat-hanh-teacher-mindfulness-and-nonviolence-dies-age-95 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Buddhism scholar Sallie B. King, Nhất Hạnh was "extremely skilled at expressing their teachings in the language of a kind of universal spirituality rather than a specifically Buddhist terminology. The language of this universal spirituality is the same as the basic values that they see expressed in other religions as well".<ref>{{Cite book|author=King|first=Sallie B.|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/8347|title=Socially Engaged Buddhism|publisher=[[University of Hawaii Press]]|year=2009|isbn=978-0-8248-3335-0|series=Dimensions of Asian Spirituality|pages=59}}</ref>