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Updated BBT style sheet

Submitted by jswami on June 30, 2008 - 7:15am

Newly posted online for downloading is the most recent updated version of the BBT Style Sheet (June 2008).

It offers the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust’s latest standards on such matters as spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and word choice.

This is a routine update.

You can always find the latest version of the style sheet (and the fonts for it) on the permanent page of BBT editorial resources.

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BBT turns down GBC recommendation, will not add "explanations" to Prabhupada's books

Submitted by jswami on June 19, 2008 - 11:35pm

Today the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust released this statement.

The ISKCON Governing Body Commission has recommended to the BBT trustees that we insert endnotes or appendices into Srila Prabhupada’s books to explain statements Srila Prabhupada makes in Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.25.41, 4.25.42, and 4.26.26 concerning a woman’s attitude towards the aggressive advances of a man and towards a man who is “expert at rape.” The GBC has also recommended that the endnotes or appendices explain “other such statements.”

The BBT directors, at their annual meeting in June of 2008, considered these recommendations and decided to turn them down.

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Is this Madhudvisa that Madhudvisa?

Submitted by jswami on April 28, 2008 - 5:43pm

You may have seen things on the internet written by “Madhudvisa Dasa.” And you may have wondered, Is this the Madhudvisa, the senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada? Or perhaps you assumed it was.

In fact, there are two Madhudvisas, two entirely different people.

The senior Madhudvisa The junior Madhudvisa
The senior Madhudvisa Dasa The junior Madhudvisa Dasa


  • Age: 61
  • Nationality: American
  • Civil name: Michael Morrissey

  • Initiation: First and second initiation in 1968, both ceremonies performed directly by Srila Prabhupada. First initiation in San Francisco, second in Los Angeles.

  • One of Srila Prabhupada’s intimate disciples. In 1972 Srila Prabhupada personally requested him to become a GBC man. During Srila Prabhupada’s time, he served as one of Srila Prabhupada’s “right-hand men” in America, India, Australasia, and elsewhere.

  • He received about 100 personal letters from Srila Prabhupada.

  • Rousing kirtana leader

  • He stays off the net
  • Age: 48
  • Nationality: Australian
  • Civil name: Michael Thompson

  • Initiation: Well, we’re not sure whether he was ever formally initiated. But a senior leader from Australia tells us that Michael received the name “Bhakta Madhudvisa” from Jayadharma Dasa, one of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples, around 1988.

  • He first came in touch with the Krishna consciousness movement well after Srila Prabhupada’s physical departure and never physically met Srila Prabhupada.

  • Presents himself as “a disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,” although in what sense he regards this to be so is unclear.

  • Extremely active on the net

 

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