4429 Chinmoy Asteroid and Statue of Sri Chinmoy - Providence, RI
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4429 Chinmoy is a main belt asteroid. A statue of Indian spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist Sri Chinmoy is located in Roger Williams Park between the south end of Elm Lake and Fredrick C. Green Memorial Blvd. in Providence, RI.
Waymark Code: WMWE7R
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 08/22/2017
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4429 Chinmoy is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 12, 1978 by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh working at the Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula in the former Soviet Union.
A life size bronze statue of Sri Chinmoy stands near the south shore of Elm Lake in Roger Williams Park. Chinmoy is wearing traditional Indian clothing of a tunic and sarong. He is holding the World Harmony Run Peace Torch in front of his chest with both hands. The statue was created by British sculptor Kaivalya Torpy and installed on April 8, 2011.
The bronze plinth is embedded in a on a 2' high by 3' square boulder. A bronze plaque in the boulder is inscribed:
Sri Chinmoy (1931 -2007)
Dreamer of Peace
Founder of the
World Harmony Run
18 April 2011
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, better known as Sri Chinmoy, was born in British India, now Bangladesh, on August 27, 1931. He was an accomplished author, artist, poet, musician and spiritual leader. He moved to New York City in 1964 and established meditation centers, eventually attracting over 7,000 students in 60 countries.
Chinmoy became an skilled musician and composer with the flute and in 1984 began performing free peace concerts which were attended by many thousands of people around the world. In 1987, he began the Sri Chinmoy Oneness Home Peace Run, a symbolic relay run for peace through many countries in which runners carry a flaming torch representing harmony. He described these as a "grassroots effort for peace". The theme "Oneness Home" represents that people desire peace and are citizens on one single planet.
Chinmoy has written over 120,000 poems, mostly short but complete spiritual poem or verse. He has also published several volume of longer, poems in the more classical style. Volumes include: Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, The Dance of Life, Wings of Light and My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers.
Chinmoy has recited his poetry at the United Nations as part of a UN sponsored event of promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry. Three of Chinmoy's poems on the theme of hope were recited by at a ceremony to mark the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.