Sri Chinmoy spends his first Christmas Day in America at the apartment of his friends Sam Spanier and Eric Hughes in Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a Christmas celebration at the United Methodist Church of Port Washington in Port Washington, NY, USA, where 200 of his published books are displayed.
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on Christmas night at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Caguas, Puerto Rico, about twenty miles inland from the capital San Juan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at Nagasaki Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy composes 13 songs dedicated to the Christ at Hotel Melia in Torremolinos, Spain.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including Luang Por Eed, Abbot of Wat Khao Takiab, in Wat Khao Takiab, Hua Hin, Thailand.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, at the Ministry of Culture in Cairo, Egypt.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the French Cultural Exchange Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on Christmas Day and gives a talk, entitled ‘Preserve Silence, Silence, Silence’, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also reads stories about the Christ and Confucius related to the theme of ‘silence’.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, attended by Regional Governor Hasyim Afandi, at Borobudur, the world’s largest Buddhist Temple, in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.