Thích Huyền Quang (19 September 1919 – 5 July 2008[1]) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, dissident and activist.

At the time, he was the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, a currently banned organisation in his homeland.

In 1977, Quang wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng detailing counts of oppression by the communist regime.

[2] In 2002, he was awarded the Homo Homini Award for his human rights activism by the Czech group People in Need, which he shared with Thích Quảng Độ and Father Nguyễn Văn Lý.

[3] Quang died peacefully on Saturday, 5 July 2008, aged 88, at his monastery.