Vipassana · Walk for Peace
Bhikkhu Paññākāra
Bhikkhu Paññākāra, known in Vietnamese as Sư Tuệ Nhân, is a Theravada monk in Fort Worth, Texas. Born in Vietnam, he studied information technology at the University of Texas at Arlington and worked as a software engineer before ordaining as a novice at Huong Dao Temple, where he is now vice-president and deputy abbot of the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center. Between October 2025 and February 2026 he led the Walk for Peace, some 2,300 miles on foot from Texas to Washington through ten states, with a group of around twenty monks. His teaching centres on mindfulness and on inner peace as the ground of social harmony, and he wrote the memoir The Footsteps of a Buddhist Monk.
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