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  • Swami (“master”) Vivekananda is one of the best known Hindu teachers in the Western world. A disciple of the Bengali saint Ramakrishna (1836–1886), he came to attend the World's Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Vivekananda (1863–1902)]

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