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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]
Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Mandir, generally known as the ISKCON Delhi temple, is a Hindu temple of Krishna and Radha in the form of Radha Parthasarathi.The Temple was inaugurated on 5 April, 1998 by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee [1] in the presence of former Chief Minister of Delhi, Sahib Singh Verma, and Sushma Swaraj.
Sri Vitthal Dham, Bhakti Marga Temple, Kirchheim (near Fulda) [7] [8] Vishwa Hindu Parisahd e.V., Frankfurt; ISKCON Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (Hessen) Hari Om Temple HCC e.V., Morsestraße 32, 60486 Frankfurt am Main (01733091821) Sri Mayapur Seva Ashram (Vedic Cultural Association e.V.) ‒ Forsthausweg 1, 69483 Wald-Michelbach (Hessen)
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.
ISKCON is seen as an extension of the Gaudiya-Vaishnava tradition and thus participates in the disciplic succession from Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In most Indic traditions spiritual authority rests in one person, or acharya, head of a monastery or a whole sampradaya. ISKCON is sometimes described as the "first global Vaisnava movement" and is different.