On 10 October 2017, Daw Aye Aye Thant, daughter of the third UN Secretary-General, U Thant, and President of the U Thant Institute, received the Sri Chinmoy Culture-Light Award. Also present were two special guests, who were both previous recipients of the...
The U Thant Peace Award was established by Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations in honour of the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, who was a deeply contemplative world-server. At the invitation of U Thant, in 1970 Sri Chinmoy began...
Well over 100 individuals from more than 20 countries joined with family members of former United Nations Secretary General U Thant in Yangon in celebration of U Thant’s 103rd Birth Anniversary. UN dignitaries, members of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the UN,...
During the Celebration of the Life of Sri Chinmoy, held at the United Nations on 30 October 2007, Daw Aye Aye Thant, daughter of Secretary-General U Thant and Founder and President of the U Thant Institute, offered the following tribute: “I am greatly honoured to...
On 28 June 2007, Sri Chinmoy had the honour of presenting the U Thant Peace Award to Daw Aye Aye Thant, U Thant’s daughter, at Aspiration-Ground meditation garden in Jamaica Hills, New York. Accompanying her was her husband, Tyn Myint-U. Following are excerpts...
On 16 September 1977 the Peace Meditation Group at the United Nations dedicated a small island in the East River, adjacent to U.N. Headquarters, to the memory of the late Secretary-General U Thant. State authorities gave permission for the Meditation Group to beautify...
Sri Chinmoy delivered the following tribute to U Thant on 12 December 1974, as part of his continuing Dag Hammarskjöld monthly lecture series at the United Nations, held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at UN Headquarters in New York. The Chosen Instrument...
U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, was chosen to head the world body in November of 1961 after Secretary-Genera1 Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in September of the same year. U Thant retired at the end of his second...
In 1970, Secretary-General U Thant invited Sri Chinmoy to conduct twice-weekly peace meditations for UN delegates and staff at UN Headquarters in New York. Since then, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, as the Group is known, has continued its...
A Buddhist by tradition, U Thant was guest of honour at the premiere of Sri Chinmoy’s play about the life of the Buddha, performed in Harrison, New York, on 25 May 1973. Following are U Thant’s remarks on that occasion:“Revered and highly esteemed Sri Chinmoy, and...
