Bhaktivedanta College, located in the rural Ardennes region of Belgium, is a Vaishnava college administered by ISKCON. The programme at Bhaktivedanta College is the study of Vaishnavism. [1]
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The college was opened by ISKCON in 2002 and aspires to be a Vaishnava university. The main offering of the college is the Ministerial Program. This program educates devotees to become preachers, teachers, leaders, scholars, and managers.[1][2]
Bhaktivedanta College is part of the educational vision for ISKCON developed by its Ministry of Educational Development. The Ministry creates institutes of higher education in Vaishnava Theology.
Bhaktivedanta College is in partnership with the University of Wales, Lampeter (UWL), a center for Theology and Religious Studies in the UK. This partnership enables Bhaktivedanta College to offer accredited academic courses for which students are awarded certificates and diplomas, leading to a degree. As an educational institution training young Vaishnava theologians in Krishnology, Bhaktivedanta College is preparing a new generation of ISKCON scholars trained inside ISKCON's educational institutions.[1][3]
The campus of the college is located at Radhadesh, set in the hilly rural Ardennes region of Belgium. Radhadesh is a devotee center for ISKCON and receives tens of thousands of visitors a year.[1]
In February 2009 ISKCON’s GBC body approved the sannyasa initiation of Yadunandana who is the principal of Bhaktivedanta College.[4] Disciple of Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, Yadunandana Swami is originally from Spain, teaching among other subjects Bhaktivaibhava course at the college and is specialising on History of sannyasa in ISKCON.[5][6]
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