page_title: Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament of the World's Religions
section_title: Journey to the west
hierarchical_section_title: Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament of the World's Religions / Background / Journey to the west
caption_attribution_description: English: Swami Vivekananda in World Parliament of Religions, 1893 in Chicago. In the photo: (from left to right) "Narasimha Chaira [Narasimhacharya of Chennai], Lakeshnie Narain [Lakshmi Narain, a barrister from Lahore], Swami Vivekananda, H. Dharmapala [Anagarika Hewivitarne Dharmapala, a Buddhist from Ceylon and later the founder of the Mahabodhi Society in Kolkata], and Vichand Ghandi [Virchand Gandhi, a lawyer of Mumbai and the chief exponent of the Jain religion.]"
context_page_description: Swami Vivekananda represented India and Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions. This was the first World's Parliament of Religions and it was held from 11 to 27 September 1893. Delegates from all over the world joined this Parliament. In 2012 a three-day world conference was organized to commemorate 150th birth anniversary of Vivekananda.
context_section_description: Vivekananda began his journey to America from Bombay, India on 31 May 1893, on the ship named peninsula  His journey to America took him to China, Japan and Canada. At Canton (Guangzhou) he saw some Buddhist monasteries. Then he visited Japan. First he went to Nagasaki. He saw three more big cities and then reached Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo and then he reached Yokohama. He started his journey to Canada in a ship named RMS Empress of India from Yokohama .
caption: Vivekananda 1893 with The East Indian Group
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