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AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a vegetarian founder of ISKCON/Hare Krishna


Lived: September 1, 1896 to November 14, 1977
Birth place: Kolkata, India

Website: http://www.iskcon.com

About: AC Bhaktivedanta Swami was the founder of the ISKCON temple/Hare Krishna movement that originated in India. His followers pray and chant daily and follow a lacto-vegetarian diet. ISKCON temples exist all over the world with followers worldwide as well. Many of the temple have adjacent vegetarian buffet restaurants named "Govinda's."

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