D. Selected tributes – received for “A Celebration of Life of Sri Chinmoy”

Filed under Significant events & meetings | Tributes and Expressions of appreciation

After Sri Chinmoy’s passing, tributes were received from around the world. Below are some which were available at the programme on 30th October and  part of  publication at  : celebration-life-sri-chinmoy/

This post covers:  D.   Selected tributes …………………………………    p.  24 –  45

For more information on programme of 30 Oct 2007, see also link to separate posts:

A.  Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………… p.2
B.   Sri Chinmoy’s meetings and correspondence with the Secretaries-General of the UN . p.3 – 7
C.   A Celebration of the Life of Sri Chinmoy, held at the United Nations……………………. p. 8 – 23

E.   Excerpts from Sri Chinmoy’s writings …………………………………………………. p.  46  – 54

=============================================================

Tributes as they appear in printed version of Programme

 (click on thumbnail images after list for excerpts)

 

  • President, Mikhail Gorbachev
  • President Bill Clinton
  • President Nelson Mandela
  • Vice President Al Gore
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  • H.E. Dr. SrgjanKerim, President of the United Nations General Assembly for the current 62nd Session
  •  H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th Session of the UN General Assembly, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Darfur
  • Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Iraq and Myanmar
  • Mr. Ted Turner, Chairman of the Board, United Nations Foundation; and Chairman, Turner Enterprises, Inc.
  • Mr. Ray Chambers, Chairman, Millennium Promise; Chairman, Amerlior Foundation; and Co-chairman, Malaria No More
  • H.E. Mr. Alexandre Gorelik, Director, UN Information Centre – Moscow
  • Mr. Kul C. Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
  • Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal
  • H.E. Ambassador Andrei Dapkiunas, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus
  • to the UN
  • H.E. Ambassador, Henry L. Mac-Donald, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Suriname
  • to the UN
  • Dr. Marcelo Suárez Salvia, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Argentina to the UN
  • H.E. Ambassador, Nirupam Sen, Permanent Representative of India to the UN
  • H.E. Ambassador Marcello Spatafora, Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN
  • Ms. Jane Goodall, Renowned Primatologist, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace
  • Ms. Susan Sarandon, Academy Award-winning actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
  • Mr. Hans Janitschek, President of the United Nations SRC Society of Writers
  • President Jorge Illueca, Former President of Panama; President of the 38th Session of the UN General Assembly
  • President Guido de Marco, President of Malta, 1999-2004; President of the 45th session of the UN General Assembly
  • Hon. Lokendra Bahadur Chand, Former Prime Minister of Nepal; Leader of the National Democratic Party
  • Hon. Kirti Nidhi Bista, Former Prime Minister of Nepal
  • President Michal Kovac, Former President of the Slovak Republic
  • President Sam Nujoma, Founding President of Namibia
  • Hon. Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico, 1973-1976; 1985-1992
  • H.E. Mr. LakhanL. Mehrotra, Former Secretary of the Government of India, and Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Cambodia and Indonesia
  • The Rt. Hon. Lord Malloch Brown, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom; former UN Deputy Secretary-General
  • Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Former UN Under-Secretary-General
  • Dr. Ananda Guruge, Professor; former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to France,
  • UNESCO and the USA; and former Senior Special Adviser to the Director-General of UNESCO
  • Hon. Karan Singh, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, India; Former Ambassador of India to the United States
  • H.E. Ambassador, Davidson L. Hepburn, Former Permanent Representative of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to the UN; and member of the Executive Board of UNESCO
  • H.E. Ambassador, Alan Nazareth, Ambassador of India (Retd); and Managing Trustee, Sarvodaya International Trust
  • H.E. Ambassador Lamuel Stanislaus, Former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the UN
  • H.E. Ambassador David M. Thomas, Former Permanent Representative of Liberia to the UN
  • Mr. Robert Muller, Former UN Assistant Secretary-General
  • Mr. Uner Kirdar, Former Senior Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and Director of UNDP’s Development Study Programme
  • Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, United States Member of Congress for Rhode Island
  • Hon. Rajnath Singh, Member of the Parliament of India, and President, Bharatiya Janata Party
  • Congressman GaryAckerman, United States Member of Congress for the congressional district in which Sri Chinmoy lived
  • Senator Charles E. Schumer, United States Senator from New York
  • Hon. S. K. Singh, Governor of Rajasthan, India
  • Hon. Peter Milliken, M.P., Speaker, House of Commons of Canada
  • Hon. Senator Mac Harb, Member of the Senate of Canada
  • Hon. Svenn Kristiansen, Mayor of Oslo, Norway
  • From a Proclamation issued by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, (signed) REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON, SR., Founder and President; MARTIN L. KING, Chairman of the Board; REVEREND JAMES T. MEEKS, Executive Vice President
  • Professor James G. Basker, Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History, Barnard College, Columbia University; President, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  • Professor Anita Bose Pfaff & Professor Martin Pfaff, University of Augsburg. Daughter and son-in-law of Indian freedom fighter and nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose
  • Mr. Adrian Benepe, New York City Parks Commissioner
  • Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1977
  • Mr. Roger Mandle, President of the Rhode Island School of Design
  • Mr. Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, Director and Founder, Department of Physical Education, Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • Bishop Carlos Belo, East Timor, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1996
  • Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Son of Pir Vilayat Khan and head of the Sufi Order in the West
  • Sister M. Nirmala, Superior General, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity
  • The Reverend Mpho A. Tutu, Executive Director, The Tutu Institute for Prayer and
  • Pilgrimage
  • Monsignor Thomas Hartman, Former director of television and radio for the Diocese of Rockwille Center
  • Reverend Dr. Marcus Braybrooke, President of the World Congress of Faiths
  • James Parks Morton, Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Interfaith Center of New York
  • Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Director, Center for Interreligious Understanding
  • Paramacharya Palaniswami, Editor-in-chief of Hinduism Today magazine
  • This tribute is offered on behalf of the Monks of Kauai’s
  • Hindu Monastery in Hawaii founded in 1970 by
  • Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
  • Ms. Rory Kennedy, Award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer
  • Mr. Joe Franklin, Legendary American television and radio personality
  • Mr. Bill McCreary, Emmy Award-winning journalist
  • Ms. Madhurima Judith Light, Emmy Award-winning actress; and
  • Mr. Robert Desiderio, Mr. Herb Hamsher and Mr. Jonathan Stoller
  • Mr. Syed-ur-Raub, President, Thikana newspaper
  • Mr. Mohammad Fazlur-Rahman, Editor, Thikana
  • Mr. M.M. Shahin, Former Member of Parliament of the People’s Republic of
  • Bangladesh; and Chairman, Thikana
  • Mr. Alimuddin and Mr. Khursedul Islam, Secretary and Convenor of the Progressive Forum, USA, respectively
  • Ravi Shankar, Legendary sitar virtuoso
  • Purushottama Boris Grebenshikov and Bhuvaneshwari  Grebenshikova, Legendary Russian singer, musician and songwriter
  • Narada MichaelWalden, Multiple Grammy Award winner, producer, drummer, singer and songwriter
  • Mokshagun Clarence Clemons, Numero uno saxophonist and hit recording artist
  • Roberta Flack, Six-time Grammy Award winner
  • Philip Glass, Renowned American composer
  • Sudhahota Carl Lewis, Nine-time Olympic gold medal winner, and spokesman for the World Harmony Run founded by Sri Chinmoy
  • Quincy Jones, Legendary music producer and humanitarian
  • Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Legendary guitarist and creator of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
  • Mr. Paul Horn, Grammy Award-winning flutist; and Ms. Ann Horn
  • Mahasamrat Bill Pearl and Bhavatarini Judy Pearl, 5-Time Mr. Universe; Best-Built Man of the 20th Century
  • Sarbottama Tatyana Lebedeva, Olympic champion in long jump, world champion and European champion in triple jump and in long jump
  • NikolayValuyev, Former world heavyweight boxing champion
  • Ms. Billie Jean King, Legendary tennis player and athlete
  • Frank Zane, 3-Time Mr. Olympia and 3-Time Mr. Universe
  • Mr. Ted Corbitt, Father of long-distance running and ultramarathon pioneer
  • The Jesse Owens Family
  • Alison Streeter, Holder of the record for the most swims across the English Channel—43 times
  • Khaliah Ali, Daughter of Muhammad Ali
  • Wayne DeMilia, Vice President, International Federation of Body Builders; Chief Judge, Mr. Olympia and Ms. Olympia, Bodybuilding’s premier contests
  • Kevin Murphy, ‘King of the Channel’ – 34 successful swims across the English Channel; World Record Holder for Men, for most crossings of swimming the English Channel
  • Jesper Olsen, First person to run around the world
  • Mike Katz, Mr. Universe, Mr. America, Educator; Co-star of the classic bodybuilding movie, Pumping Iron
  • Hugo Girard,  IFSA Super-series World Champion Strongman
  • Dan Lurie, Winner of America’s Most Muscular Man contest three years in a row; Trainer of Champions

======================================================================