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This foreshadowed succession problems and issues of authority that Prabhupada’s movement would face both during Prabhupada’s presence and after. [301] Unlike Indian gurus who declared themselves avatars, divine appearances of God, Prabhupada, from the very beginning of his preaching, called himself only a servant or representative of God. [302]
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly referred to as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization.It was founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada [2] on 13 July 1966 in New York City.
Haight-Ashbury, 2005. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (also referred to as "Bhaktivedanta Swami" or "Prabhupada"), a Gaudiya Vaishnava sannyasi and teacher, arrived in New York City from his native India in 1965 and "caught the powerful rising tide" of a counterculture that was fascinated with his homeland and open to new forms of "consciousness-expanding spirituality."
Mukunda was a pioneer in the early days of the Hare Krishna movement. [3] In 1966 in New York City he helped Bhaktivedanta Swami rent a storefront for the first Hare Krishna temple. [ 4 ] In 1967 he founded the first Hare Krishna temple in San Francisco and organized a major music event, the Mantra-Rock Dance .
[1] [2] Soon, he joined the burgeoning Hare Krishna movement as a guru, with the name Sai Young, and soon acquired disciples. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] After being publicly denounced by Swami Prabhupada , the leading exponent of the movement in U.S.A, Butler joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and received the name ...
In the 1960s, the one of his disciples, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada went to the West to spread Gaudiya-Vaishnavism and establish the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), "the most successful of the Gaudiya Math's offspring," an organization that continues today. [85]
Prabhupada (with the deity of Jagannath to his right) chanting in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in February 1967. As founder and acharya (leader) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada established the first Radha-Krishna Temple in New York in 1966, followed by a branch in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
To his followers, he was known as Srila Prabhupāda (an honorific also later extended to his disciple A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada). Bimala Prasad was born in 1874 in Puri (then Bengal Presidency , now Orissa ) in a Bengali Hindu Kayastha family as a son of Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinoda Thakur , a recognised Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnava ...