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Once Prabhupada’s disciples had made a start in England, over the years Prabhupada visited England many times and from there traveled to Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, [115] leading kirtans, installing forms of Krishna in ISKCON temples, meeting religious and intellectual leaders and others keen to meet him ...
Jayatirtha Dasa was born as James Edward Immel in Saipan, US Trust Territory of the Pacific.He was a business and philosophy major in college. [1] In 1969, James was initiated into the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, whereupon he was given the name Jayatirtha Dasa.
Founder of ISKCON: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The following is a list of members or people closely associated with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Vishnujana Swami (IAST: Viṣṇujana Svāmī; June 2, 1948 - March 16, 1976), [1] born Mark Stephen D'Atillo, was a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and a sannyasi within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (commonly known as the 'Hare Krishnas' or ISKCON) who disappeared in 1976.
After Prabhupada's death in 1977, Sridhar Maharaja gave instruction to Prabhupada's disciples, [11] with Americans Bhaktivedanta Tripurari [10] and Jayatirtha Swami and Hungarian devotee Dvarakesa Swami (Bhakti Abhay Narayan) [12] among the prominent ex-ISKCON members to take shiksha or sannyasa initiation from Sridhar.
In July 1977, Hansadutta was one of eleven disciples named by Bhaktivedanta Swami to act as "ritviks", or "initiating acaryas", who would initiate new disciples. [9] Four months after Bhaktivedanta Swami died on 14 November 1977, as part of ISKCON's Zonal Acharya system, Hansadutta began initiating disciples primarily within zones assigned to ...
From 1975 until 1979, Tamal Krishna Goswami headed the "Radha-Damodara Party". The party consisted of hundreds of Bhaktivedanta Swami's disciples, who traveled around the USA on buses, distributing Bhaktivedanta Swami's books. [2] The Governing Body Commission (GBC) is the managerial authority of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Kirtanananda Swami [1] (IAST: Kīrtanānanda Svāmī; September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011), [2] also known as Swami Bhaktipada, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, the co-founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served as spiritual leader from 1968 until 1994, and a convicted criminal.