Giriraja Swami
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| Religion | Gaudiya Vaishnavism |
| Senior posting | |
|---|---|
| Based in | USA |
| Title | sannyasi |
| Period in office | 1978 - current |
| Religious career | |
| Post | disciple |
| Website | GRS Website |
| Personal | |
| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | Chicago |
Giriraja Swami is a religious leader, and guru of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.[1]
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[edit] Origin
Giriraja Swami was born in Chicago as Glenn Phillip Teton.
[edit] As an ISKCON Leader
He personally met and became an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada early in 1969 in Boston during one month of lectures by Prabhupada in Boston University. [2]
In 1972, after Giriraj toured India with Srila Prabhupada, [3] Prabhupada appointed him as President of ISKCON Bombay as well as Trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
Giriraja accepted the renounced order of life, sannyasa after Prabhupada's departure in 1977 from Tamal Krishna Goswami. He was also appointed the President of ISKCON's Board of Trustees in India. He joined the Governing Body Commission in 1982 (the ultimate managing authority for the movement) Girirraj Swami went on to oversee the Society's activities in Bombay, Mauritius, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Due to health considerations Giriraja Swami has reduced his travels, he has taken the opportunity to focus on Srila Prabhupada's instruction to him to write. He is now based in Southern California.
He is currently on the board of trustees of Bhaktivedanta College.[4]
[edit] Books
Watering the Seed, Giriraj Swami, Publisher: Mountain King (2000), ASIN: B000K9PRVS
[edit] Notes
- ^ List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008 ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 May 2008
- ^ Satsvarupa, Dasa Goswami (1998), "You Cannot Leave Boston" My Letters From Srila Prabhupada Volume 2, GN Press, p. February 1969, ISBN 0911233717
- ^ Satsvarupa, Dasa Goswami (first edition 1980-82, second edition 2002), Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta Vol 1, BBT, pp. vol.1 1133 chapter: India: Dancing White Elephants, ISBN 0892133570]
- ^ Bhaktivedanta College Board of Trustees Bhaktivedanta College Vision
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