Career
Thích Thiên-Ân came to the United States from Vietnam in the summer of 1966 as an exchange professor He taught philosophy at the University of California, Los Los Angeles In addition, he taught Eastern Philosophy and Asian Studies at Los Angeles City College.
He retired from teaching at the college when he was diagnosed with liver cancer in 1979.
He continued teaching at his center until he died in 1980 at the age of 54, succumbing to the effects of the liver cancer. "We all shed salty tears and shed red blood.
All is one.".