Sri Chinmoy gives a lecture, entitled ‘Hinduism: Its Spiritual Significance’, at the Adult Class of Comparative Religion, Chaim Weizmann Chapter of Hadassah, West Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits the Daibutsu (Great Buddha) at the Kōtoku-in temple in Kamakura, Japan, for the first time. He writes two poems, ‘The Home of Awakened Mankind’ and ‘To Kamakura’, both later published in My Salutation to Japan. While in Kamakura, he also visits the home of Roshi Philip Kapleau (author of the Three Pillars of Zen) and his family.
Sri Chinmoy writes 30 poems (71-100) in the Tokyo Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 1.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (135) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (162) at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Vladimir Petrovsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, at the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is the guest of honour at a ceremony naming Puerto Rico a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom at Muñoz Rivera Park Peace Pavilion in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India, at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs 10 crunch abdomen-ups pushing 367-lbs. in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Millennium Peace Concert to an audience of 5,000 at Central Park East Meadow in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy’s students also sing two special songs he had written in honour of City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who attends the concert.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Scottish Rite Temple in San Diego, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy dines with Ravi Shankar and his wife Sukanya at the popular vegetarian restaurant, Jyoti-Bihanga, in San Diego, CA, USA.