Sri Chinmoy offers a special message to senior citizens in the local area who attend a vegetarian banquet hosted by Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy writes 17 more Indian stories (61-77), which are later published in Great Indian Meals: Divinely Delicious and Supremely Nourishing, part 4.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 39 people at the Armonia Hotel in Athens, Greece.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Armonia Hotel in Athens, Greece.
Sri Chinmoy breaks his American 100-metre sprinting record of 14.48 (set on 23 Sep. 1983) with a time of 14.13, at the Universidad de la Laguna track in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities and Peace Studies from the University of Southern Philippines in Cebu City, the Philippines. He is the fifth recipient since the university’s founding in 1927. Sri Chinmoy delivers his acceptance speech and a talk, entitled ‘University: The Wisdom-Source of World Peace-Makers’.
A collection of 3,700 of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings is exhibited at the University of Southern Philippines in Cebu City, the Philippines. During his seven weeks in Asia, Sri Chinmoy completes 10,000 new bird drawings.
Sri Chinmoy is greeted by the Mayor of Durban Mr. Sipho Ngwenya and Sita Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, at Durban International Airport in Durban, South Africa.
Sri Chinmoy holds a press conference at the South Beach Holiday Inn in Durban, South Africa.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people, including 30 monks from 8 different pagodas; and Tim Page, famous war photographer for AP and UPI, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk entitled, ‘The Psychic Beings are Most Beautiful’, at the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Novotel Palm Cove Resort Convention Centre in Cairns, northern Queensland, Australia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Centre in Xi’an, China. There, he also lifts two pandas — the largest, weighing 432 pounds, is officially named ‘Chinmoy’ for a year. In addition, Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including a group of schoolchildren from Dy Zhou zhi Yonghong School Xi’an in Shaanxi province, who present him with a commemorative banner.