The statue of Thich Quang Duc Bodhisattva will be placed at the intersection of CMT8 and Nguyen Dinh Chieu Streets in District 3 on the very spot where he chose to die.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Information has chosen a winner out of the dozen entries in a competition to design a statue of a monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection in 1963 in protest against the South Vietnamese regime’s oppression of Buddhists.