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1971
Sri Chinmoy wins first place in a poetry contest in Jean’s Journal for his poem ‘Between Nothingness and Eternity’.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at the Bowne Street Community Church in Flushing, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts Saoul Mamby, 1980-82 World Welterweight Boxing Champion, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy lifts Richard Schneider, Chancellor of the World Peace University, Oregon, and the founding Chairman of Radio for Peace International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
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Peace Concert dedication: “Today’s Peace Concert I am lovingly and soulfully offering to Swami Vivekananda, who came into the world to illumine humanity’s doubting mind and to feed humanity’s hungry heart.” — Sri Chinmoy |
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert – the 34th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy holds a programme honouring Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Colombia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2004
Sri Chinmoy reaches the halfway point of his epic poetry series, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees when volume 39 was published.
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1979
Sri Chinmoy completes 100 miles of running in one week in the Jamaica environs, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous people, including Dr. Peter Wilenski, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Shibuya-ku Omotesando Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Azerbaijan and Honduras are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Regional Museum in Simferopol, Ukraine.
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1988
Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with and lifts Ramesh Krishnan, India’s no. 1 tennis champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Walk in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts numerous people, including Troy Fidler, Australian Male Triathlete of the Year, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Mall Gallery in London, UK.
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1985
Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with Bangladesh’s top-ranked junior tennis player Shovon Jamaly at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
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Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with and lifts Monica Seles, World’s no. 1 Women’s Singles Tennis Champion, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Gamle Logen in Oslo, Norway.
2000
Mozambique, Nicaragua and Nigeria are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with Keith Jarrett, jazz pianist, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy completes his 31,000th Jharna-Kala painting, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts 330 lb. with one arm; and during a standing calf-raise workout, lifts a total of 106 ton, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy meets Mani Shankar Mukherji, Bengali author and journalist, at the United Nations in New York.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Palau, Haiti and Vanuatu are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the ASV Mehrzweckhalle in Munich, Germany.
2003
Sri Chinmoy, aged 72, participates in the shot put, discus, javelin, softball throw and the 100-track race at the annual Centre Sports Day event, held this year at Astoria Park in Queens, New York, USA.
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1985
Sri Chinmoy lifts 85 pounds overhead from the ground using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and also lifts numerous people, including the Venerable Maha Ghosananda, Supreme Patriarch of the exiled Cambodian Buddhist Order, at the Performing Arts Center in Providence, RI, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hala Sportowa Mera in Warsaw, Poland.
2000
Mexico is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2000
Sri Chinmoy has his 17th meeting with President Gorbachev at the Hilton Hotel in New York, NY, USA. The President’s daughter, Irina Virganskaya, is also present.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 88 people at Madal Bal Sewa in Munich, Germany.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, preceded by lifting 12 people, at Stadthalle in Gersthofen, Germany.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Elmer Gale (twice silver medallist, heavyweight division, North American Sumo Championships) and his 8-year-old daughter, Pax Galesantos (North American Judo Champion in her weight class) at Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, ON, Canada.
2005
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Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read more...
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1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 33,000 Jharna-Kala paintings (2,000 paintings in 2 days) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy performs on 31 musical instruments in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
A reception for Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala exhibition is sponsored by Senator Richard Kraus at Doric Hall, State House, in Boston, MA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Opera House in Boston, MA, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Manhattan Center Studios in New York, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Kongresszentrum Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.
2005
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Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities in Peace Studies. He also gives a talk and performs on the esraj at the International University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read more...
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1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, CT, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Ukraine’s Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Alexander Volkov declares Ukraine a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including Reinhart Helmke, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive-Director of the UN Office of Project Services (UNOPS); Murari Raj Sharma, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations; Dr. Anastase Gasane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations; Abie Grossfield, US Gymnastics Olympian in 1956 and 1960, coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team; Tim Jecko, Captain of the US Swim Team in 1956 Olympics, world-record holder in 3 swimming events; and Gail Marquis, 1976 Olympic silver medallist in women’s basketball, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 32 people at Hotel Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Philip Glass, composer and Oscar nominee, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
1995
Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-metre race in a time of 15.57 sec., at the San Juan Masters Track & Field Championships in Parque Central, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2004
Sri Chinmoy achieves his heaviest one-person lift by lifting Larry McConneghey, who weighs 735 lb., at Lookout Point in Riverside Park, New York, NY, USA.
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1977
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at ABC Haus Am Bahnhof in Cologne, Germany.
1977
Sri Chinmoy paints ‘Journey’s Battle-Victory’, a 13’ x 25’ canvas, in 47 minutes, in New York, NY, USA. The painting is later exhibited on a billboard in San Francisco, California, near Fisherman’s Wharf, sponsored by the Eyes and Ears Foundation.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at the Holy Family Church in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and also lifts Sugar Ray Leonard, 1976 Olympic gold medallist, boxing (light-welterweight); and Daniel Nichols, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Office of Emergency Plans, US Department of State, at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 33 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name. He also receives a Citation of Honour from the Pluralism Project.
2002
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Sri Chinmoy lifts 21 people at Schützenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.
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1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with Elliot Richardson, US Spokesman at the UN Conference on Law of the Sea, former Cabinet Member under Presidents Nixon and Ford, and presents him with an original Jharna-Kala painting at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery, Grand Central Station, in New York, NY, USA.
1984
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Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the Sri Chinmoy Recreation Trail in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, with an 800-metre running race along the trail for his students.
1986
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Sri Chinmoy meets with legendary composer Leonard Bernstein for the second time, at the maestro’s residence in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Washington State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia, WA, USA.
1999
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Theatergalerie in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
2005
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 170 instruments for 7 hours, 40 minutes at the Kursaal Convention Centre in Interlaken, Switzerland.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 44,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (early evening) at Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne, Australia.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne, Australia.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at Palais des Congrès de Montréal to an audience of 6,000 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Monmouth Arts Center in Red Bank, NJ, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the Interfaith NGO Prayer Service for the Opening of UN General Assembly at the Islamic Cultural Center in New York, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to C. Subramaniam, President of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan International, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Romania and St. Kitts & Nevis are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 47 people at Schutzenhaus Albisguetli in Zurich, Switzerland.
2004
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Museum of East And West in Odesa, Ukraine.
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1981
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 13 miles in 2:01:30 (9:20 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Marathon (completing the first 13 miles) in Plainsboro, NJ, USA.
1982
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Illinois to an audience of almost 7,000 people in Chicago, IL, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy holds a memorial programme for Mother Teresa, who passed away on 5 September 1997 aged 87 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, at his meditation garden, Aspiration-Ground, in Jamaica, New York, USA.
1998
Finland is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the Opening of the UN General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
2007
Sri Chinmoy lifts the American philanthropist Ray Chambers, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA.
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1982
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert, attended by Ambassador Davidson Hepburn of the Bahamas in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations, New York.
2004
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Interfaith NGO Ceremony for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and the Temple of Understanding, attended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Stadthalle, Colombi Park, in Freiburg, Germany.
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1984
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Sri Chinmoy meets with world marathon champion Robert de Castella at ‘Deeks Drive’, the famous Stromlo Forest running trail in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts 1,600 lbs. using a standing calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, sponsored by The New Yorker magazine and Classical Keyboard Instruments, opens at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts C.V. Narasimhan, Chef de Cabinet for UN Secretaries-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, at the George and Annette Murphy Recreation Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts 15 members of the Humboldt University Chamber Choir, East Berlin, Germany, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Ganesh Puja held at Public School 217 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jonathan Moore, US Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, at the United Nations in New York.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Maimarkthalle in Mannheim, Germany.
2005
Sri Chinmoy receives the Great Victory Medal from Dr. Yuri Petrovich Smirnov, Vice President of Russia’s Academy for Military Intelligence and Civil Protection.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts a suspended car plus 2 people – a total weight of 2,558 lbs. – Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy completes 48,000 Jharna-Kala paintings overall in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy attends a dedication ceremony and naming of U Thant Island, on the East River adjacent to the UN New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the UN Prayer Breakfast at the UN Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy lifts a car for the first time, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York, NY, USA.
1988
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Sri Chinmoy lifts Ilie Năstase, world champion tennis player, and plays tennis with him, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.
2000
The Dominican Republic and Yemen are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 1650 lbs. using a seated calf raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
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Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, Germany.
2006
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“Sri Chinmoy impresses me every time he lifts. He goes beyond what is humanly possible, especially at his age! Being here this weekend has replenished all my energy and given me more strength to keep pushing harder.” — Hugo Girard, IFSA Strongman Super Series World Champion (2002), four-time World Muscle Power Classic (WMPC) Champion (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004), and six-time Canada’s Strongest Man (1999-2004) |
At a special weightlifting event at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, Sri Chinmoy lifted: • Bodybuilding legend Bill Pearl; • Canadian strongman Hugo Girard; • Two stone lion statues and Hugo Girard, a total of 2,828 lbs., using a seated calf raise; • 1,550 of his published works, a total of 1,179 lbs., using a seated calf raise; • A giant pumpkin, a total of 1,123 lbs., using a standing calf raise.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy performs at the ‘Night of Champions’ and receives an award from Wayne Demilia, President of the Bodybuilding Federation, Professional Division Inc. at the Town Hall in New York, NY, USA.
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1976
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on the anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s death and delivers a talk about the UN’s second Secretary-General, in the Meditation Room of the United Nations in New York.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including Ken Anderson, no. 1 high school basketball player in the US; Mark Jackson, 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year, former all-American basketball player; Shelton Jones, 1987 all-American basketball player; and Ken Smith, no. 1 basketball point guard in the US – in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Peace Osaka Hall in Osaka, Japan.
1999
Sri Chinmoy meets Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Madhurima Judith Light, Emmy Award Winner, stage and television actress, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (morning, an audience of 2,100; evening, an audience of 3,180) at the Zenith in Munich, Germany.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts three planes at Princeton Airport, NJ, USA.
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1986
Using a standing calf raise, one leg at a time, Sri Chinmoy lifts 400 lbs. with each leg, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 29 people, including Ted Corbitt, Olympic Marathoner, father of ultra-distance running in the US, and the first President of the New York Road Runners Club; Shankar Shetty, President of the Indian National Congress of America; and José Torres, Olympic Boxing silver medallist, former Light Heavyweight Champion in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1989
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at City Hall in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
1993
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, IL, USA.
2000
Saint Lucia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2001
Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ustad Kadar Khan, renowned tabla player, and Pandit Jasraj, Indian classical vocalist in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy composes ‘Give Me No Freedom’ in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kongresscenter in Dresden, Germany.
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1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Suganami Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
1986
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Sri Chinmoy achieves a 380½-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Dominica and Ethiopia are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin, Germany.
2007
Sri Chinmoy offers his final Peace Concert, dedicated to the late Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, in Lensovet House of Culture in St. Petersburg, Russia. During the concert, Sri Chinmoy invites the legendary Russian singer-songwriter Purushottama Boris Grebenshikov on stage to perform.
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1973
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Sri Chinmoy first meets with Ravi Shankar, world-famous sitar player, at the home of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts 19 people, including James Grant, UNICEF Executive Director and Lester B. Korn, Ambassador of the United States to the UN, at the UNICEF Plaza in New York, NY, USA.
1994
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Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to James Grant, UNICEF Executive Director, at UNICEF in New York.
1998
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“That is so important. We are with you in upholding peace, which brings solace to many people throughout the world. It doesn’t matter what language they speak. I think peace is one of the things that is going to save the world.” — Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa |
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Sri Chinmoy meets with Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, and his wife, Graça Machel, Mozambique Minister of Education and Global Advocate for Women and Children at the Waldorf-Astoria Towers in New York, NY, USA.
2000
Luxembourg is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
2002
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“Ravi Shankar the musician and God the Supreme Musician sleeplessly communicate with each other through the language of love.” — Sri Chinmoy “Sri Chinmoy, my brother, I am so overwhelmed and emotionally I feel choked with the love that you have shown towards me.” — Ravi Shankar |
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ravi Shankar and offers him the U Thant Peace Award. Sri Chinmoy also lifts Ravi Shankar’s wife Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA. Read more...
2003
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Sri Chinmoy lifts the ‘Magpie Twins’ Casey Burns (2003 North American Heavyweight Sumo Champion) and Kelly Gneiting (Three-time U.S. Heavyweight Champion) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy completes 10 stories during a 6-hour period in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy receives the annual award from the World Gratitude Day Foundation at the UN Church Centre in New York, NY, USA. Read more...
1986
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Sri Chinmoy achieves a 400½-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy meets with Inder Kumar Gujral, Prime Minister of India, at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (USA) in New York, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including Dr. Penny Lee Dean, women’s world-record holder for the English Channel swim, set in 1978 to present; John Howard, 1981 Hawaii Ironman champion, world-champion cyclist, member of 3 US Olympic teams; Stu Mittleman, ultra-distance runner, held 6-day and 1,000-mile world record; Scott Tinley, 1982 and 1985 Hawaii Ironman Champion; Frank Zane, legendary bodybuilder, 3-time Mr. Olympia, at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, CA, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts W.J.M. Lokubandara, Speaker of Sri Lankan House of Parliament, Minister of Education, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1983
Sri Chinmoy meets with Milkha Singh, The Flying Sikh, who won 77 of the 80 track races he ran, at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1991
Sri Chinmoy lifts and offers U Thant Peace Award to H.E. Lakhan Mehrotra, Secretary of Indian Ministry for External Affairs, former Indian Ambassador to USSR, USA, Yugoslavia, and Sri Lanka, former Consul General of India to New York, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 16 people, including Rafael Figueroa, principal cellist, NY Metropolitan Opera; Yue Sai Kan, journalist, TV series creator and Emmy Award winner; Dorothy Franco-Reed, 1984 US Olympic Handball Team player, ESPN commentator; and Vinoy Verma, former Indian Ambassador to Thailand and former Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy visits Paramahansa Yogananda’s Ashram in Encinitas, CA, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Charles Osgood, CBS Radio and TV newscaster, winner of 3 Emmy Awards, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy lifts and offers U Thant Peace Award to Alfred Moisiu, President of Albania; lifts Alexandr Vondra, Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
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1977
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“Your intentions and your work in this beautiful meditation group under the leadership of this highly respected master of spirituality, Sri Chinmoy, are in harmony with those of the Pope.” — Monsignor Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Office of the Holy See to the U.N. |
Sri Chinmoy hosts a programme honouring Pope Paul VI’s 80th birthday at the United Nations in New York, which is attended by Monsignor Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Office of the Holy See to the U.N.
1979
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 10 miles in 1:23:47 (8:23 pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the V World Masters Games and runs the 100-metre event in 14.48 seconds at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1986
Sri Chinmoy first lifts an elephant using a modified calf-raise machine at Chinmoy Avenue in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (afternoon) at Urawa City Centre in Tokyo, Japan.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at Urawa City Centre in Tokyo, Japan.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City, at Flushing Meadows Park in Flushing, NY, USA.
1997
Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial Peace Concert for Mother Teresa in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
1998
New Zealand is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Canada. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 34 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name. The audience of 19,000 is Sri Chinmoy’s largest-ever concert.
2001
Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Ricky Martin, Latin pop singer (afternoon); lifts Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia (early evening), in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1967
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Spirituality: What Does it Really Mean?’, at 9:00 a.m. at William Sloane House, YMCA in New York City, NY, USA.
<1976
Sri Chinmoy delivers two talks, entitled ‘The Face of Truth’ and ‘They Say and We Say’, at the United Nations in New York.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT, USA.
1977
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at St Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington, VT, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy runs in his first 10-mile race, one sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in Greenwich, CT, USA. He completes the course in 1:45:22.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ performance at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo, Japan.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan.
1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Gorbachev’s chief interpreter Pavel Palazchenko from the Gorbachev Foundation at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts William Graham, Foreign Minister of Canada, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mokshagun Clarence Clemons, saxophonist with Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1983
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 31.40 seconds for 200 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall in Nagasaki, Japan.
1988
Sri Chinmoy travels from New York to watch Sudhahota Carl Lewis compete during the 1988 Olympics, in Seoul, South Korea. He has a long conversation& with the Olympic champion.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea, including Andre Phillips, 1988 Olympic gold medallist for the 400 metres hurdles; and Calvin Smith, 1984 Olympic gold medallist for the 4 x 100 metres relay and 1988 Olympic bronze medallist for 100 metres.
1996
Sri Chinmoy sinks 78 baskets out of 100 basketball throws from penalty line in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert in the 65th year of his birth, playing and singing 65 songs, to celebrate his cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA. The 2½-hour concert was his longest cello performance.
1999
Sri Chinmoy completes his 10,000,000th Soul-Bird drawing, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2001
Yugoslavia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
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1981
Sri Chinmoy with ‘the father of long-distance running’ Ted Corbitt at the awards ceremony of the second Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.
1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for athletes of the World Masters Games at the Tapia Theater in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1986
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Sri Chinmoy achieves a 450-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.
1988
Sri Chinmoy receives Sudhahota Carl Lewis’ winning shoes from the Olympian’s gold medal long-jump performance at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ramsewak Shankar, President of Suriname, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, commemorating his completion of 100,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2002
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mani Sankar Mukherji, renowned Bengali novelist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy lifts 2,400 pounds using a standing calf-raise machine, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Nehru Centre in London, UK.
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1974
Sri Chinmoy writes ten stories between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., while he was visiting his meditation centre in Puerto Rico. They were later published in his book, A Yogi's Justice, an Avatar's Justice and God's Justice.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Sincerity, Purity And Security’, at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘We Are One’, at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1978
Sri Chinmoy meets with L. L. Mehrotra, Consul-General of India in California, gives a concert and composes a song in his honour at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA. After the song, Mr. Mehrotra spontaneously offers a most special message.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a short inspiring talk, entitled ‘What is a Miracle?’ after a morning sports practice at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, NY, USA. In the evening, at his home in New York, Sri Chinmoy offers a message, entitled ‘I Shall No Longer Allow’.
1981
Sri Chinmoy meets with Robert De Castella, Olympic marathoner, in NY, USA.
1982
Sri Chinmoy offers his Gratitude Day message to his spiritual children, which he also sets to music.
1983
Sri Chinmoy first plays the cello in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1983
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best time of 72.66 seconds for 400 metres in the West at the World Masters Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1983
Sri Chinmoy receives the Simon Bolivar Medal from the Central American and Caribbean Masters Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1986
Sri Chinmoy first lifts a sailboat in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1986
Sri Chinmoy conducts an interview about his weightlifting achievements with the cable television programme Vision of Asia.
1986
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in the UN General Assembly Lobby at the United Nations in New York.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers his ‘Salutation to Japan’ in Kyoto, Japan.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Avanti Hall in Kyoto, Japan.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Golden Hall, San Diego Civic Center, in San Diego, CA, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Jaya Raj Acharya, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1993
Sri Chinmoy meets with Kiro Gligorov, first President of Macedonia.
1996
Sri Chinmoy offers a cello concert, playing and singing 13 songs, to celebrate his 13th cello anniversary, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2000
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the UN, NY.
2003
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy receives an Honorary Degree — Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa — from the President and Vice-Chancellor of Stamford University Bangladesh, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
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1977
Sri Chinmoy holds a reception for Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery, Grand Central Station, in New York, NY, USA. A song, entitled ‘O Great Pilot Mayor Beame’, composed by Sri Chinmoy in honour of the mayor, is also performed.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Past Has Fast Faded Behind Us’, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Superiority’, after a morning sports practice at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy presents Yiannis Kouros, with the winner’s trophy for his victory in the Sri Chinmoy 24 Hour Road Race held on a one-mile loop course in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA. Yiannis had run through the battering storms of Hurricane Gloria to record a new world record of 178 miles.
1987
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Osaka, Japan.
1988
Sri Chinmoy lifts several Olympians, including Roger Kingdom, 1984 and 1988 Olympic gold medallist in 110 metres hurdles, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
1989
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of California in Irvine CA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Henry Kissinger, 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York.
1990
Sri Chinmoy lifts H.E. Mary Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica, at the Bosendorfer Centre in New York, NY, USA.
1991
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Guido De Marco, President of the UN General Assembly and Deputy Prime Minister of Malta, at Annam-Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1992
Sri Chinmoy lifts and plays tennis with Jason McManus, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. — the publishers of over 100 magazine brands, including Time magazine and Sports Illustrated — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mircea Snegur, President of Moldova, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2005
Sri Chinmoy performs 22 songs on the cello for his 22nd cello anniversary, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2006
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Pir Zia Inayat Khan, President of the Sufi Order International North America, son of Pir Vilayat Khan, at the Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, NY, USA.
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1975
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Prayer and Meditation’, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA.
1977
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Sri Chinmoy meets for the second time with Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on the morning of his championship fight with Earnie Shavers, for an hour of prayer and spiritual discussion at the apartment of his manager, Herbert Muhammad, in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1978
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After attending one of Sri Chinmoy’s meditation-concerts: “I felt you bringing down Peace and Grace from above.” — Surjit Singh Bamala, India’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation |
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation-concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Our Departing Friends, Our Lasting Friends and Our Everlasting Friends’, at the University of California in Davis, CA, USA, where he meets with Surjit Singh Barnala, India’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Have Only One Need’, at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Davies Hall in San Francisco, CA, USA.
1986
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Sri Chinmoy achieves a 503-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister of Italy, at the Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Moussa Traore of the Republic of Mali at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
1998
Sri Chinmoy resumes serious weightlifting in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers his spiritual comments about the significance of the Olympic Games in a short talk, entitled ‘On the Olympics’, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy meets with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA. The President’s daughter Irina Virganskaya-Gorbacheva is also present at the meeting.
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1969
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ignorance’, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.
1974
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Wisdom-Light’, at the University of Miami in Miami, FL, USA.
1977
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A photograph of Sri Chinmoy meditating with Muhammad Ali, taken the previous day, appears in the New York Times. Sri Chinmoy speaks about the photograph of Muhammad Ali, at the United Nations in New York.
1978
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Self-Transcendence’, at Bakersfield State University in Bakersfield, CA, USA.
1980
Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk entitled ‘Indifference’, after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA.
1981
Sri Chinmoy meets with Aristides Royo Sánchez, President of Panama, at the Panama State Reception held at the United Nations in New York. There, he also meets with Dr. Carlos Ozores Typaldos, Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations.
1984
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour meditation at Ottawa University in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
1985
Sri Chinmoy meets with Alan Hovhaness, American composer, at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (early evening) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
1985
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (evening) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.
1990
Sri Chinmoy meets with Harri Holkeri, Prime Minister of Finland, at the United Nations in New York.
1991
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sergey Lavrov, Director of the Department of International Organisations and Global Problems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
1999
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
2003
Sri Chinmoy lifts Dr. Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.
2004
Sri Chinmoy meets with former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in Vienna, Austria.