Krishna Kshetra Swami – teacher, writer, and traveler – 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 cen
HH Bhanu Swami Maharaja is one of the senior disciples of His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, founder acharya of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He holds a BA Degree in Oriental fine arts history from the University of British Colombia. He joined the Hare Krishna movement in India in 1970. Initiated in 1971 by Srila Prabhupada, he took sannyasa vows in 1984. Bhanu Swami was personally instructed in the art of Deity worship by Srila Prabhupada,
End of life care and bhakti wisdom – Interview with HH Giriraj Swami
HH Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton, the only son of a respected Chicago lawyer who was later appointed judge. In March of 1969, while studying at Brandeis University in Boston, he met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), from whom, he felt, he learned more in one brief exchange than he had learned in his many year
From: Working with Hindu organizations for common causes, The Monk's Podcast 167 with Mahaprabhu Prabhu.
Mahaprabhu Dasa (Martin Gurvich) was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1963. He is the son of well-known artist Jose Gurvich and Julia Anorga. Mahaprabhu Das studied Political Science at Syracuse University, USA.
He joined the Hare Krishna Movement in 1982 in Paris, France.He has performed many different services in the movement and at present is ISKCON Communications Director for Europe, Preside
Jayananda Prabhu is a bhakti-yoga practitioner for nearly three decades. He is the co-author of the education plan for teaching Krishna consciousness in public schools in Finland, which led to government-funded KC teaching on religion classes for those who wanted to have that instead of the Christianity-based majority option. He holds a PhD in the Study of Religions and has written several books on yoga wisdom and authored / co-authored many articles in academic journals. He has the highest cer
After receiving an honours degree in philosophy and politics from Bristol, Cintamani Dhama joined ISKCON in 1981. She assisted her husband Krishna Dharma in opening an ISKCON centre in Manchester in 1987, which they ran for 15 years. She has co-authored with Krishna Dharma six volumes of a series of dramatised retellings of Srimad Bhagavatam, entitled Brilliant as the Sun, with a further four in the works. She and her husband are now part of the Bhaktivedanta Manor community, where they teach a
Radhika Ramana Prabhu is a notable Vaishnava scholar. He holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of The Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Vedānta of Jīva Gosvāmī (Routledge, 2007), co-editor of The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2013), editor of Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Philosophy: Tradition Reason and Devotion (Ashgate Publishing, 2014), and co-author of The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Selected Readings (Columbia University Pr
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Rambhoru Brinkmann M.Div; MA; BCC ACPE Certified Educator
Rambhoru was initiated in 1974 in Cologne, Germany, by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. She spent the next twenty-six years assisting her husband, Prithu Dasa, to establish and manage ISKCON temples in Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, and India. During that time she and her husband had two sons, Madan Mohan (Madi) Dasa and Nila Madhava (now Sri Madhava Mahotsava) Dasa. In 1999, Rambhoru returned to G
