Swami in a Strange Land is the authorized biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, approved by the 50th anniversary committee of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
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Text copyright © 2016 Joshua M. Greene
Photographs on pages x, xiv, 40, 63, 64, 79, 82, 112, 136, 163, 164, 187, 188, 209, 212, 242, 261 copyright © 2016 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.
Photographs on pages xvi, 8, 52, 79, 209, 212, 241, 262, 268 © Mandala Publishing.
Photographs on pages xx and 123 © Joshua M. Greene
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Published by Mandala Publishing, San Rafael, California, in 2016. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
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ISBN: 978-1-60887-644-0
ISBN: 978-1-60887-965-6 (ebook)
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Caption for page x: The Swami’s weekly meetings beneath a tall elm tree in Tompkins Square Park, New York City, made Krishna consciousness visible to the Western world for the first time in history. The unprecedented public chanting of “Hare Krishna” caused numerous New Yorkers to take up bhakti yoga, the path of devotion.