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Bhakti Chaitanya Swami (born 14 August 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 and is the leader of ISKCON in South Africa, the Baltic states and Russia.

Bhakti Chaitanya Swami was born as Richard Naismith on 14 August 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.

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 received the name Bhakti Caitanya Swami. Later he became a member of the Governing Body Commission and ISKCON Guru.

See also

• List of ISKCON members and patrons

Footnotes

1. ^ Kūrma Dāsa 1999
2. ^ Petrova 2009
3. ^ Verba 2004
4. List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008 ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 May 2008
5. ^ Khan 2005

References

• Ramson, S. M. (2006), The Enduring Self: Exploring the Identity of the Hare Krishna Devotees Beyond Race, Language and Culture (PDF), University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Kūrma Dāsa (1999), The Great Transcendental Adventure: Pastimes of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda in Australia and New Zealand, Chakra Press, ISBN 0947259228
• Lokanath Swami (2001), Festivals: Śrīla Prabhupāda at the Māyāpur-Vr̥ndāvana festivals, Padayātrā Press, ISBN 8190113216
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• Living people
• Converts to Hinduism
• International Society for Krishna Consciousness religious figures
• New Zealand Hare Krishnas
• 1951 births