Subramuniya Swami receives U thant Peace Award 2000 Aug 25
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Sivaya Subramuniyaswami was presented the U Thant Peace Award by Sri Chinmoy on August 25, 2000, in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Subramuniyaswami was in New York as a Hindu delegate to the Millennium Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders which opened at the UN on August 28.
The U thant Peace Award has previously been bestowed by “Sri Chinmoy: the Peace Meditation at the United Nations” upon Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Dada JP. Vaswani.
Below are excerpt / Images from report of the presentation in “Hinduism Today” November /December 2000:
First offered in ‘1982, the award is given to individuals and organizations who have exemplified the lofty spiritual ideals of the late United Nations’ Secretary-General U Thant and implemented those ideals in the tireless pursuit of world peace.
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