Krishna Kshetra Das -
teacher, writer, and traveller - is a disciple of His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He has
served as a missionary, temple priest (pujari), and counselor for
bhakti-yoga practitioners from the time of his formal initiation in
1972. From 1972 to 1976 he was based in Germany, the Netherlands,
and Denmark; then he began to participate in Vaishnava missionary
activities in central Europe. Almost every year, from 1978 to 1995
he visited India on pilgrimage. In 1995, as coordinator of a
research group, he compiled and published Pancaratra-pradipa (in 2
volumes), a manual for Caitanya Vaishnava temple worship. He also
served ISKCON’s GBC as the minister for Deity worship from then
until 2005. In 2004, after eight years of university study
(resuming his interrupted studies from 1972), he received a Ph.D.
degree from the University of Oxford (St. Cross College), for his
dissertation on Caitanya Vaishnava image worship, now available
from Routledge Publishers as Attending Krsna’s Image: Caitanya
Vaisnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth (2006), as a book in the
Routledge Hindu Studies Series. Krishna Kshetra Das is now a
Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He also
teaches at Bhaktivedanta College, Radhadesh, since 2002. He
recently taught survey courses in Indian religions and Asian
religions in the Religion Department at the University of Florida,
Gainesville. In September 2007 he will begin teaching for one year
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also given lectures
at universities in Central Europe. Amidst academic work he also
travels extensively, teaching about spiritual life, as comprehended
in the Vaishnava devotional (bhakti) tradition coming from Sri
Caitanya. These are the countries in which he has studied, taught,
counseled, and participated in spiritual community-building:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Macedonia,
Malaysia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland,
Rumania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Trinidad, United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia. Visit
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