A Temple on the New York Sidewalks
An Indian-style temple at the foot of a Manhattan skyscraper? Not for long. Aindra dasa’s van, transformed into an ornate temple, appears at different places in New York City every day.
Dutch Parliamentary Report Endorses ISKCON
The 320-page report, prepared over the last four years by the Dutch Parliament Committee on New Religious Movements, had many favorable things to say about the Hare Krsna movement.
Heliodorus Column Proves Western Krsna Devotees 2200 years ago
The Heliodorus column’s inscription is irrefutable evidence the philosophy of Krsna consciousness had made an impact on Western minds at least twenty-two hundred years ago.
KHQN Now Broadcasting Krsna Consciousness
Formerly a country-western station, KHQN (1480 on the am dial) recently began broadcasting “The Sound of Transcendence” fifteen hours a day, seven days a week.
Festival of India Tours U.S.
“Festival of India” is a dramatic presentation of ISKCON’s cultural and philosophical heritage. Exhibits on vegetarian cooking, reincarnation, spiritual education, and karma—to name a few—attract thousands.
Indira Gandhi Accepts Bhagavatam
“Hare Krsna,” the prime minister said, and Haridasa dasa, the first Muslim to become a Hare Krsna devotee in India, presented her with part three of the First Canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, a Vedic classic.
The Life Story of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bala Books recently announced the publication of The Life Story of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a biography of ISKCON’s founder and spiritual master told through simple text and detailed panel illustrations.
Lotus-Flower Float Dazzles Cotton Bowl Crowd
The new year began here on an ecstatic note at the twenty-seventh annual Cotton Bowl Festival and Parade as a crowd of one hundred thousand and a national television audience of millions viewed the award-winning float built by “the Texas Hare Krishnas.”
ISKCON Food for Life in Major Cities
Miami—The ISKCON Food for Life program is in full swing here and in other cities across the United States and abroad.
Opening of Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi in Vrindavan
The two-story marble memorial, complete with ornate balconies and winding staircases and featuring photo and sculpture exhibits, stands adjacent to the Krishna-Balaram temple.
New Temple for ISKCON Vancouver
After five years of patient effort and a heroic last-minute marathon, the devotees of the ISKCON center in Vancouver have completed building an ornate Vedic-style temple for their worshipable Deities, Sri Sri Radha-Madana-mohana.
The Auto Industry: Going Nowhere Fast
The 170 million motor vehicles registered in the United States pump 80 million tons of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and hydrocarbons into the air annually.
Beatle John Lennon With Montreal Devotees
“I found out what being famous was like. It’s a drag responsibility. I spent a long time looking; meditation in India and all that. It was all okay, you know, but it wasn’t the answer. And then I met Yoko, and we worked our sort of thing out between us, fell in love and that.” John Lennon.
Pope John Paul II Gets Krishna Books
At the Vatican recently, Pope John Paul II received from Kirtiraja dasa Polish editions of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is and Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Said the pontiff: “Thank you very much. They’re very beautiful.”
Los Angeles Chariot Festival Draws 250,000
Following a religious tradition observed for thousands of years in Jagannatha Puri, India, the devotees of the Hare Krsna temple here celebrated their seventh annual Ratha-yatra Chariot Festival recently.
Los Angeles Sankirtan
An example of spreading Krishna Consciousness is found in the activities of the devotees at the Los Angeles Radha Krishna Temple, who are engaged in a full program of Sankirtan throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out on “Brainwashing”
On “Brainwashing” Last October a Queens, New York, grand jury leveled charges of extortion and “imprisonment through brainwashing” against New York ISKCON Temple President Adi-Kesava Swami. In mid-February of this year, one month before State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy threw the case out of court, Adi-Kesava traveled to ISKCON’s temple in Mayapur, India, […]
ISKCON News — Ratha Yatra Day Proclaimed in San Francisco
In a proclamation issued June 23, 1975, Mayor Joseph L. Alioto established July 20 as “Ratha-Yatra Day” in San Francisco. Ratha-Yatra is a large festival sponsored in San Francisco and many other cities and countries by ISKCON.
ISKCON News
Scholars and librarians are falling in love with Prabhupada’s books. The libraries of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Swarthmore and dozens of other major universities have placed standing orders for for all the volumes published and all those yet to come.