A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a Bengali Hindu monk and the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, also known as the Hare Krishna movement. He was born Choudhury Swami Prabhupada in 1896 in Calcutta, India. Prabhupada studied Sanskrit, philosophy, and theology at the University of Calcutta and later at the University of London. He became a monk in 1922 and traveled extensively throug...