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The Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston was founded in 1909, and is one of the oldest Vedanta Society in North America. It is a branch of Ramakrishna Order founded by Swami Vivekananda. [56] Swami Paramananda founded the Vedanta center in Boston in 1909. In 1941 Swami Akhilananda moved it to its present location at 58 Deerfield Street, Boston ...
The Vedanta Society of San Francisco was established in 1900 by Swami Vivekanandaji, after his attending Chicago World's Fair of 1893. [13] At Filbert Street & Webster. Or it was developed in two stages in 1905 and 1908. Incorporating Mogul was designed by Swami Trigunatitananda and architect Joseph A. Leonard. Its towers in multiple Indian ...
Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre. Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) [18] in a Bengali Kayastha family [19] [20] in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, [21] the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. [22]
In 1893, Vivekananda went to the United States and joined the Parliament of the World's Religions held in Chicago. He was a delegate representing Hinduism and India. After the conclusion of the Parliament, he traveled to many American cities including Minneapolis, Memphis, Detroit and New York. Almost everywhere he went he received a cordial ...
Vivekananda, who was an unknown monk in the United States as of 11 September 1893, before the start of the Parliament, became a celebrity overnight. [2] After lecturing at the Parliament, Vivekananda travelled between 1893—1897 and 1899–1902 in America and England, conducting lectures and classes.
Swami Vivekananda and fifteen [2] others were the founders of this order. After taking formal monastic vows through appropriate rituals (12 at first and the rest at different times later) they assumed new names as follows (based on seniority in age): Generalissimo, El Yogador, manager, and drone.
Although initially reluctant to consider himself a guru, he eventually taught his disciples and founded the monastic Ramakrishna Order. [8] Ramakrishna died due to throat cancer on the night of 15 August 1886. [9] After his demise, his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda popularized his ideas in India and the West. [10]
Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries, a series of biographical books, were Gargi's most prominent work. This series of book were first published in two volumes in 1957. In 1983-87, these series was republished in six volumes. [9] Swami Vivekananda spent a number of years teaching and lecturing in the West (specially in America and ...