Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Ateneo de Madrid, Salon de Actos, in Madrid, Spain.
Sri Chinmoy gives interviews on Sri Lanka National TV and meets with Bradman Weerakoon, President’s Advisor on International Relations, at the Hilton Colombo Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Chinmoy completes 21,466 Soul-Bird drawings in one day — bringing his all-time total to 769,729 — at Kitano Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Western Samoa. His previous highest total was 21,220, which he had achieved just six days earlier (20 December).
Sri Chinmoy visits Robben Island in South Africa, where he meditates and offers a soulful prayer in the prison cell President Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 years.
Sri Chinmoy makes a soulful pilgrimage to Renko-ji Temple in Suginami-ku Ward, Tokyo, Japan, where the ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, India’s freedom fighter, are kept.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Hearton Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Catedral Metropolitana in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 26 people, including Sopheap, Chief Monk of Ponna-Kkettaram Pagoda at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts The Most Venerable Tep Vong, Supreme Patriarch of Maha Nikaya Order of Buddhist Monks. As well, he receives the Light of Lord Buddha Award from the Supreme Patriarch Udnalorm Pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Christ’s College Chapel in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Sri Chinmoy offers a private organ recital at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Jon Hellerman, world-renowned triathlete coach; and Dr. Roddy Kirkwood, climber of Mt. Everest, at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 52 people from the Gadja Mada University Marching Band at the Sheraton Mustika Hotel in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts HRH Daulat Tuanku, Sultan of Pahang State, King of Malaysia, 1979-1984, and Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom at the VIP State House in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.