Founded by Swami Vivekananda on April 14, ... To a pious Hindu, a temple is the abode of God and a representation of the omnipresent, cosmic, and transcendental dimension of the creator.

Portraits of Swami Vivekananda, from left, his guru Ramakrishna, and Sarada Devi are displayed at the Vedanta Society of New York, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Manhattan. (RNS photo/Richa Karmarkar) ...

(RNS) — The first that the vast majority of turn-of-the-20th-century Americans heard of Swami Vivekananda was the speech the 30-year-old Hindu delegate gave at the Parliament of the World’s ...

This nuanced and detailed account of the life and times of Narendranath Datta (1863-1902), better known as Swami Vivekananda, by a professor of European history at the University of Oxford has come at ...

Images of Buddha, Mary and Jesus, and Hindu gods covered the walls of the center’s chapel room, which was started in 1933 by Swami Nikhilananda as a “Vedanta temple for universal worship.” ...

Swami Sarvarpriyananda underscored Vivekananda’s role in fostering understanding between cultures, noting, “He built a bridge between the East and the West when he traveled to the World ...