About
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada set up this trust on 30th March 1972. BBT is the world's largest publisher of books on Vedic literature. The books published by this trust shed light on the philosophy, religion, and culture of the Vedic tradition of India. Its publications include original scriptural works, translated into more than 100 languages, and books that discuss and explain these traditional texts.
About
ISKCON
ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness), founded in 1966 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, is a spiritual society within the Gaudiya-Vaishnava tradition. Today ISKCON has more than 400 temples and 100+ vegetarian restaurants globally.
About His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977), the founder-acharya* of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was the foremost proponent and teacher of Krishna consciousness—devotional service to the Supreme Person, Krishna—of the late twentieth century.
Srila Prabhupada, as he’s known to his followers, translated and commented on over eighty volumes of the most important sacred bhakti texts. His books include Bhagavad-gita As It Is—the definitive commentary on Krishna's advice on how to be happy in this life and the next—and the multi-volume Shrimad-Bhagavatam—a history of Krishna’s activities, His avatars, and His many devotees throughout the universe. Srila Prabhupada also constantly traveled the world, initiating thousands of disciples and managing a global spiritual movement which continues to grow today.
When Srila Prabhupada met his own spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta urged the young devotee later known as Srila Prabhupada to preach Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s message of Krishna consciousness in English.
