A delegation of Sri Lankan and American Buddhist monks and nuns visited the historic site of the First Parliament of the ...

(RNS) — The first that the vast majority of turn-of-the-20th-century Americans heard of Swami Vivekananda was the ... the World’s Religions in 1893 in Chicago. Vivekananda captivated his ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The words of a landmark speech about tolerance delivered on Sept. 11, more than 100 years before the infamous terror attacks in 2001, are the focus of ...

Vivekananda, a Hindu monk, philosopher and disciple of mystic Ramakrishna Paramhansa, made his iconic speech at Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago between September 11-27, 1893.