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NEW YORK (RNS) — The Vedanta Society of New York is easy to miss. The center of worship, housed in a plain-old brownstone on the Upper West Side, has hosted dozens of monks, lamas and other ...

The Ramakrishna Mission and the Vedanta Society are two distinct organizations. Both were established by Swami Vivekananda in the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a period of ...