[SeekAndFind]

EDIT TO ADD : The practice in Vietnam is also called BONZO because Buddhist monks immolated themselves in protest of the Vietnamese regime in 1963.

It was Western media coverage of the fiery Vietnamese suicides that introduced the word "self-immolation" to a wide English-speaking audience and gave it a strong association with fire. In English literature prior to the mid-20th century, Buddhist monks were often referred to by the term bonze, particularly when describing monks from East Asia and French Indochina.

This term is derived via Portuguese and French from the Japanese word bonsō for a priest or monk, and has become less common in modern literature.

[kcvl]

I doubt Cao knows much about the subject since he was born in 1967 and escaped to America with two of his siblings at the age of eight.