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The society has had six presidents since inception. Swami Tathagatananda was the president since 1977 until his death on 25 June 2016. [3] Swami Sarvapriyananda was appointed as Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York, and assumed his duties on January 6, 2017.
The first Vedanta Society, the Vedanta Society of New York, was founded by Swami Vivekananda in November 1894 on his first trip to the West. [ 5 ] [ 14 ] In 1897 Vivekananda sent Swami Abhedananda to lead the organization. [ 7 ]
Swami Sarvapriyananda served as assistant minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California in 2015. [1] He was later appointed head of the Vedanta Society of New York, a position he has been serving since 6 January 2017. [1] Swami Tathagatananda was his predecessor.
Following his famous speech at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago, Swami Vivekananda established Vedanta Societies in New York City and San Francisco in the 1890s. The Vedanta Society built its first temple, called the Old Temple, in North America in San Francisco in 1905.
Swami Tathagatananda (15 February 1923 – 25 June 2016), was a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission.He was the Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York from November 1977 to June 2016, which was the first Vedanta Society in the United States, founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1895.
Swami Yogatmananda of the Vedanta Society of Providence poses with the Independent Man before the statue undergoes restoration. Visitors lined up at the State House on Friday and signed a guest ...
In 1924, he established Ramakrishna Vedanta Math in Darjeeling in Bengal Presidency (now West Bengal). In 1927, he started publishing Visvavani, the monthly magazine of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, which he edited from 1927 to 1938, [6] and which is still published today. In 1936, he presided over the Parliament of Religions at the Town ...
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