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Chinmoy Krishna Das (Bengali: চিন্ময় কৃষ্ণ দাস) is a Bangladeshi Hindu monk and community leader who is the spokesperson of Bangladesh Sanatan Jagaran Mancha. On 25 November 2024, he was arrested on sedition charges, leading to violent protests by his followers and diplomatic reactions from India.
The Hindu monk had been advocating for the rights of the Hindus, who make up roughly 8 per cent of Bangladesh's population, in the wake of the targeted violence that ensued in the wake of the ...
Malati Devi Dasi is the first woman appointed to the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) After years of discussion and reforms, a general consensus emerged to accept women as leaders and initiators in ISKCON. In 1998, Malati Devi Dasi became the first woman appointed to the GBC. [32] The second woman leader, Dina Sharana, was selected in ...
Video shows Lathers screaming during arrest. Body camera footage released by Miami police to multiple media outlets shows Lathers on the ground, topless and breathing heavily after the Aug. 10 ...
An inferno tore through a Buddhist temple complex in the Bronx early Wednesday morning, killing a monk and a visitor as Big Apple firefighters struggled to access a fire hydrant for the second ...
Kirtanananda Swami [1] (IAST: Kīrtanānanda Svāmī; September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011), [2] also known as Swami Bhaktipada, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, the co-founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served as spiritual leader from 1968 until 1994, and a convicted criminal.
The shooting happened at the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist temple during the early hours of August 10. [3] The victims were all linked to the temple and either Thais or of Thai descent: the abbot, Pairuch Kanthong; five monks, Surichai Anuttaro, Boochuay Chaiyarach, Chalerm Chantapim, Siang Ginggaeo, and Somsak Sopha; a nun, Foy Sripanpasert; her nephew, Matthew Miller, who was a novice monk; and a ...
A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced four men to 25 years for the "honor killing" of a woman stabbed to death in broad daylight in front of her three-year-old daughter. The 28-year-old Roshin was ...