Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha About the Author Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk. His life - long efforts to generate peace and reconciliation moved Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He is the founder of Van Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon and has taught at Columbia University and the Sorbonne. He is the author of Being Peace, Under the Banyan Tree, The Path of Emancipation and 85 other books. "I have not avoided including the various difficulties the Buddha encountered, both from his own disciples and in relation to the wider society. If the Buddha appears in this book as a man close to us, it is partly due to recounting such difficulties." - from the Author's Afterword