Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets music to 99 English poems from Transcendence-Perfection in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Great Buddha of Kamakura on his second visit (the first being on 23 October 1969) at the Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Vinay Verma, Ambassador of India to Thailand, Permanent Representative of India to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for Asia and the Pacific, son of Sri Chinmoy’s English teacher in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (211) at the Cairo Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

Sri Chinmoy trains with over-sized shot puts at a beachside park in Hawaii. The shot puts range in size from 6 to 50 lbs.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Joseph Mercieca, Archbishop of Malta, at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana, Malta.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (287) dedicated to President Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta, where he receives the Gold Medallion for International Service to Peace, from Constantin Spiteri, Head of Culture, Ministry of Education.

Sri Chinmoy meets with H.E. Alexander Kadakin, Ambassador of Russia to Nepal, at the Blue Star Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Bishopscourt official residence in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and (528) Jharna-Kala exhibit at the Hotel Barceló Del Lago in Panajachel, Guatemala.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’ in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Later, at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Sri Chinmoy meditates with a young Buddhist monk Sopheap, and then the two speak about their experiences at a war museum, as well as other subjects.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Xiamen Middle School Number 5 in Xiamen, China, where he meets with Mr. Xu, Minister of Education for Xiamen. 1,000 school children sing Sri Chinmoy’s composition ‘I Am A Great Chinese Boy, I Am A Good Chinese Girl’.

 

Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Thirty–Two Years I Lived in India’.