Rishikesh / Uttarkashi (Himalayan study)

Rishikesh and Uttarkashi, on the Ganges (Bhāgīrathī) in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand, north India, are centres of monastic study. There Swami Chinmayananda studied Vedānta under Swami Tapovan Maharaj in the late 1940s before beginning his public teaching.