U Thant Peace Award

U Thant Peace Award

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...
Memorial Tribute by Daw Aye Aye Thant, 30 October 2007

Memorial Tribute by Daw Aye Aye Thant, 30 October 2007

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...
U Thant Peace Award to Daw Aye Aye Thant, 28 June 2007

U Thant Peace Award to Daw Aye Aye Thant, 28 June 2007

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...
U Thant Island

U Thant Island

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...
Tribute Lecture to U Thant, 12 December 1974

Tribute Lecture to U Thant, 12 December 1974

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...
Secretary General U Thant – Biographical Data

Secretary General U Thant – Biographical Data

    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...
U Thant and Sri Chinmoy

U Thant and Sri Chinmoy

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...