Nippon Vedanta Kyokai (Vedanta Society of Japan)

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Shrine

Nippon Vedanta Kyokai, Japan

4-18-1 Hisagi, Zushi-shi 249, Kanagawa-ken, Japan 249-0001
☎ 81-468-730428
[email protected]
🌐︎ www.vedanta.jp

Founded in 1959, the centre was affiliated to the Ramakrishna Math in 1984. Swami Medhasananda is its Swami-in-charge.

Activities:

  • Regular religious and scriptural classes and retreats at the centre and at other places in Japan.
  • Weekly yogasana classes and monthly Karma yoga classes.
  • Publication of a bimonthly Japanese magazine Fumetsu No Kotoba (The Universal Gospel), and Japanese translations of a few important titles in the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature.
  • Publication of a monthly e-newsletter in English and Japanese.
  • A library with 2800 books, and a bookstore
  • Welfare work by serving food once a month to homeless people at Kotobuki-cho in Yokohama.
  • Spiritual guidance and counselling.
  • Celebration of the birth anniversaries of the Holy Trio and some other religious luminaries, as also festivals like Kalpataru Day, Christmas Eve and Kali Puja.
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Satsanga in Yamagata