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Bhakti Chaitanya Swami (born August 14, 1951 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a Gaudiya Vaishnava swami and a religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna movement or ISKCON). He is a member of the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON, leading the movement in South Africa, the Baltic states and Russia.

Bhakti Chaitanya Swami was born as Richard Naismith on August 14, 1951 in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1972 he first met ISKCON's founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Auckland University. A year later he joined ISKCON in London and received initiation from Swami Prabhupada, who gave him a sanskrit name Raghubhir Dasa. Later he became involved in public relations and book publication for Bhaktivedanta Manor.

Bhakti Caitanya Swami is closely associated with the educational programs of ISKCON and teaches courses at the Vaisnava Institute for Higher Education in Vrindavana. In 1994, during the Gaura Purnima Festival, he took the renounced order of sannyasa from Giriraja Swami and became Bhakti Caitanya Swami. Later he became a member of the Governing Body Commission and an initiating guru within ISKCON.

See also

• List of ISKCON members and patrons

Footnotes

1. ^ Kūrma Dāsa 1999 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKūrma_Dāsa1999 (help)
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4. List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008 ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 May 2008
5. ^ Khan 2005 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKhan2005 (help)

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• Living people
• Converts to Hinduism
• International Society for Krishna Consciousness religious figures
• New Zealand Hare Krishnas