ISKCON (Hare Krishna)

The atlas dates the origin of ISKCON (Hare Krishna) to 1966.

ISKCON is one branch of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and not the whole of it.

This source names ISKCON directly: "Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)."

Vrindavan has been a major ISKCON centre since the 1970s.

ISKCON is a twentieth century institutional movement within the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, founded by Prabhupada on a claimed disciplic succession from Chaitanya through Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur.

Founded in New York in 1966, the year after he arrived there.

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ISKCON confers brahminical initiation on anyone qualified by practice, regardless of birth or nationality, holding the varna to describe character rather than descent. It is the brahmin office detached from the hereditary basis that defines it elsewhere.

Initiated members undertake a fixed count of sixteen rounds a day, so what is elsewhere a devotion undertaken freely is here a measured daily obligation with a number attached to it.

ISKCON confers brahminical initiation and the thread on qualified initiates without regard to birth or nation, which keeps the sign while reversing the rule of descent it traditionally marked.

The indwelling supreme self is held in ISKCON.

Collected absorption is held in ISKCON as absorption in Krishna reached through chanting rather than through seated withdrawal.

Being, consciousness and bliss are held in ISKCON as real qualities of Krishna.

Gaudiya teaching in this movement holds the yoga of the subtle body impractical for the present age and directs the practitioner to devotional chanting instead.

The movement organises pilgrimage to the hill and keeps the annual worship of it as one of its principal observances.

ISKCON initiating gurus stand in a line the movement traces through its founder, and the relation of disciple to guru is formal, exclusive and lifelong.

The movement holds Jagannath as its own deity and stages the chariot festival in cities worldwide, while the temple at Puri admits only Hindus and has refused entry to its foreign members.

Street chanting is the movement's public face and the reason the world knows it by the mantra rather than by its name.

The lotus is present in the movement's art and architecture as it is throughout Vaishnavism, and the movement's own recognised emblem is the name of Krishna rather than the flower.

Sixteen rounds of the beads a day is the standing vow taken at initiation, which makes the counted recitation the movement's defining discipline.

The movement maintains temples in the town and in the surrounding forest region, and its founder began his own preaching from there.

The deity in the temple is served on the traditional daily cycle, and the movement's temples are built around that service.

The blend is burned at the temple offering and at the household altar, and the movement made it familiar far outside India.

Food offered and then distributed is central to the movement's public work, and the free meal programme grew directly out of it.

Sandalwood is offered before the deity and its paste is used for the marks worn on the body.

The four regulative principles are ISKCON's own codified membership standard, formulated by Prabhupada.

ISKCON's own claimed guru-parampara and Governing Body Commission structure, distinct from the wider Gaudiya lineage's other institutional forms.

George Harrison wrote the song's chanted Hare Krishna mantra after his own turn toward Krishna Consciousness under A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ISKCON's founder; in 1973 Harrison donated the property that became and remains ISKCON's United Kingdom headquarters. This is a second, more specific edge alongside the entity's existing edge to the wider Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition, not a replacement for it.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation was founded in 2000 by devotees of ISKCON Bangalore on the Hare Krishna Hill temple campus, explicitly carrying out founder Prabhupada's stated vision that no one within ten miles of a temple should go hungry, so linked to ISKCON (Hare Krishna) as the specific denomination that founded and continues to be closely associated with it, rather than to Hinduism generally.

Inconceivable difference and non-difference is held in ISKCON, carried over from the Gaudiya sampradaya it belongs to.

Non-injury is held in ISKCON, and the first of the four regulative principles turns it into an enumerated entry standard.

The self is held in ISKCON to be eternal, distinct from the body, and eternally a part of Krishna.

Ignorance is held in ISKCON as forgetfulness of Krishna.

Devotion is the means and the goal in ISKCON.

Brahman is held in ISKCON to be Krishna, following the Gaudiya ranking of the three aspects of the absolute.

Giving is held in ISKCON, and the free distribution of food offered to Krishna is one of the movement's most visible institutional programmes.

Dharma is held in ISKCON, with devotional service presented as the eternal function of the soul and the ordinary duties as secondary to it.

The teaching lineage is central in ISKCON, and initiation into it is what constitutes membership.

A chosen deity is held in ISKCON and the choice is not open: Krishna with Radha is the supreme reality.

Knowledge is valued in ISKCON and is not the means: devotional service is, and knowledge pursued apart from it is taught to obstruct.

Karma is held in ISKCON, and devotional service is taught as what frees a person from it.

The play is held in ISKCON as the eternal reality of Krishna's activity rather than as allegory.

The supreme person is held in ISKCON, with Krishna as that person in his own right.

Liberation in ISKCON is entry into Krishna's eternal association, taught in the Gaudiya terms the movement carries.

Merit and demerit are held in ISKCON.

Transmigration is held in ISKCON, and the movement's introductory teaching commonly begins from it.

Latent impressions are held in ISKCON.

Congregational chanting as the practice prescribed for this age is held in ISKCON, and the movement's public chanting is the doctrine acted out.

The three strands are held in ISKCON, and the movement's dietary and conduct standards are taught in terms of them.

Vedanta is held in ISKCON in the Gaudiya reading, inconceivable difference and non-difference.

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