Issued by Sri Lanka

Issued on Apr 28, 2014

Type : Stamp, Mint condition

Denomination : 5.00 Rupee

Colours : Multi Colour

Name : Nguyễn Sinh Cung

Born on May 19, 1890 at Kim Liên, Nghệ An Province, French Indochina

Died on Sep 2, 1969 at Hanoi, North Vietnam

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Issued by Sri Lanka

Issued on May 7, 2011

Issued to Commemorate the 150^th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet.

Picture : A Portrait of the Poet, Rabindranath Tagore

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Watermark : No

Colour : Multicolored

Denomination : 5.00 Rupee

Name : Rabīndranātha Thākura

Born on May 7, 1861 at Kolkata, India

Died on Aug 7, 1941 at Kolkata, India

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Issued by Sri Lanka

Issued on Jan 15, 1997

Issued for : The Philatelic Bureau of the Department of Posts will issue a Postage stamp in the denomination of Rs. 2.50 on 15^th January, 1997 to commemorate the 100^th Anniversary of the Visit of Swami Vivekananda to Sri Lanka.

Design : Portrait & Globe

Format : Vertical

Designer : S. S. Silva

Type : Stamp, Mint condition

Denomination : Rs. 2.50

Colours (used) : 4 Process Colours

Stamp size : 40 x 30 mm

Perforation : 13½

Gum : Tropical

Quantity printed : 1,000,000

Sheet Composition : 50 Stamps per sheet

Printing process : Offset Lithography

Printers : Oriental Press – Bharain

Name : Narendranath Datta

Born on Jan 12, 1863 at Calcutta, British India [now Kolkata]

Died on Jul 4, 1902 at Belur Math, Bengal Presidency, British Raj

About : 

• Swami Vivekananda was born in Calcutta on 12^th January, 1863. As a child he had an inquiring mind and exhibited great qualities of leadership. At the threshold of youth, while passing through a period of spiritual crisis, he met his great spiritual Master, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, who was an embodiment of the spiritual treasures of all the major religions of the World. It was this spiritual giant who shaped Swami Vivekananda into a Universal Man, a spiritual colossus, with his heart embracing the whole humanity.
• Swami Vivekananda’s famous speech at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, has gone into the annals of history as the trend-setter for world peace and inter-religious harmony.
• Swami Vivekananda was a bridge between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West. In his scheme of life, there is no conflict between faith and reason, between religion and science, between action and contemplation, between sacred and secular. He warned man-making and character-building religion. He emphasized education to be oriented to acquiring strength of mind than be mere book learning. In him everything was positive, nothing negative.
• Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897, with the noble ideal of service to humanity irrespective of caste, creed and colour. Today the mission has branches all over the world including the one in Sri Lanka.
• Swami Vivekananda visited Sri Lanka on 15^th January, 1897, on his way back to India after his triumphal visit to the West. The centenary of his visit to Sri Lanka is a reminder to us that in this increasingly inter-depender world, we should treat each other as brothers and sisters and live in harmony.
• Swami Vivekananda entered into eternal peace in 1902.

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