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Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (also called Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir), is a modern Hindu temple complex under construction since 2009 dedicated to the Pancha-Tattva deities, Radha Madhava, and Ashta-sakhis, and Narasimha, located in the town of Mayapur in West Bengal, India. It will be the largest religious monument in the world after ...
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.
There are a number of Gaudiya Vaishnava organizations in Mayapur. The headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is situated in Mayapur. The town is heavily centered on this particular Vaishnava religious tradition with temples devoted to Radha and Krishna or Gaura-Nitai throughout. [7]
The maha-mantra gained the attention of George Harrison and John Lennon of the Beatles fame, [216] and Harrison produced a 1969 recording of the mantra by devotees from the London Radha Krishna Temple. [217] Titled "Hare Krishna Mantra", the song reached the top twenty on the UK music charts and was also successful in West Germany and ...
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.
One pioneer of the Gaudiya Vaishnavite mission in the West was Baba Premananda Bharati (1858–1914), [79] author of Sree Krishna – the Lord of Love (1904) – the first full-length treatment of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in English, [80] who, in 1902, founded the short-lived "Krishna Samaj" society in New York City and built a temple in Los Angeles.
Chanting beads, normally of tulasi wood given by an ISKCON guru at the initiation to an ISKCON devotee of Krishna. An ISKCON guru is a person who is permitted to initiate disciples into the International Society for Krishna Consciousness system. The guru system has undergone several changes and reform since its beginnings in the 1960s.
He oversaw the construction of ISKCON founder-acharya A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's pushpa samadhi mandir (memorial shrine) in Mayapur, [3] India, and was a member of the Mayapur Administrative Council, the committee that oversees the daily management of the project from 1985 to 1990. Later, he continued with more service in Mayapur ...