ISKCON
A living tradition within Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism (Caitanya movement). The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
ISKCON is a living tradition within Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism (Caitanya movement). Also written International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Hare Krishna movement.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda (Abhay Charan De). Founding date given as 1966. WRSP (entry by Benjamin Zeller): founded 1966 in New York City. The movement traces to 'the Chaitanya (Gaudya) Vaishnava school of Hinduism, specifically the sixteenth-century reforms of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu'; Prabhupāda took initiation in 1932 from his guru Bhaktisiddhānta, 'who charged him with spreading Krishna consciousness among English speakers'.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “ISKCON.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-iskcon.
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title = {ISKCON},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.