Word: prabhupada
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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DIED. A.C. Bhaktivedanta (Swami Prabhupada), 81, founder and spiritual leader of the American Hare Krishna movement; after a long illness; at his temple in Vrindaban, India. The manager of a large pharmaceutical laboratory, the swami's life was altered when he met his own guru in 1922. After some 40 years of preparation and the translation of more than 80 volumes of Hindu works, the swami came to New York City. Flower children of the '60s were instantly attracted to Prabhupada's offerings of an ascetic life; the flowing saffron robes and rhythmic chants of the Hare...
...shaving their heads except for one hank of hair by which they can be yanked into heaven-follow a centuries-old tradition of bhakti (devotion) to Krishna, one of the major Hindu gods. The sect was founded in the U.S. in 1966 by an Indian guru, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and numbers 2,500 core members; missionaries back to India have gained few converts...