WRITER

Sri Chinmoy

1931 - 2007

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Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (27 August 1931 – 11 October 2007), better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964. Chinmoy established his first meditation center in Queens, New York, and eventually had 7,000 students in 60 countries. He was an author, artist, poet, and musician; he also held public events such as concerts and meditations on the theme of inner peace. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sri Chinmoy has received more than 1,134,306 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Sri Chinmoy is the 693rd most popular writer (up from 1,569th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Meditation
Meditation, Hinduism, Doctrines
1978
The garland of nation-souls
Religious aspects of Peace, Peace, United Nations
1995
Kundalini
Kuṇḍalinī
1974
Songs of the soul
Meditations, Meditation, Spiritual life
1971
Union-vision
Yoga, Concord
1976
My flute
1975

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sri Chinmoy ranks 693 out of 7,302. Before him are Kang Youwei, Jean Froissart, Truman Capote, Bettina von Arnim, Carlos Fuentes, and Francesca da Rimini. After him are Laura Ingalls Wilder, Multatuli, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Naim Frashëri, Luis de Góngora, and Periander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Sri Chinmoy ranks 39. Before him are Martinus J. G. Veltman, Khieu Samphan, Anne Bancroft, Aldo Rossi, Hiroto Muraoka, and Riccardo Giacconi. After him are William Shatner, Jim Jones, James Cronin, Nawal El Saadawi, David Lee, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Among people deceased in 2007, Sri Chinmoy ranks 22. Before him are Sidney Sheldon, Benazir Bhutto, Kai Siegbahn, Maurice Béjart, Ryszard Kapuściński, and Jean-Pierre Cassel. After him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Albert Ellis, Nils Liedholm, Abdul Rahman Arif, Richard Rorty, and Jane Wyman.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Sri Chinmoy ranks 3 out of 74. Before him are Muhammad Yunus (1940), and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920). After him are Atiśa (982), Sheikh Hasina (1947), Abdul Hamid (1944), Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858), Chandragupta I (250), William Beveridge (1879), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Begum Rokeya (1880), and Zillur Rahman (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Sri Chinmoy ranks 1. After him are Begum Rokeya (1880), Chittaranjan Das (1869), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Kamini Roy (1864), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Sufia Kamal (1911), Ahmed Sofa (1943), Avijit Roy (1972), and Mamunul Haque (1973).

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