https://bvml.org/An independent guide to Gaudiya Vaishnava history, places, texts and devotional musichttps://bvml.org/chaitanya/https://bvml.org/chaitanya/2026-11-07Chaitanya, the Bengali saint at the origin of Gaudiya Vaishnavism: his life in Navadvipa, his renunciation and travels, his eighteen years in Puri, the biographies that tell his story, his teaching on the holy name and what historians can say about him.https://bvml.org/six-gosvamis/https://bvml.org/six-gosvamis/2026-11-07Rupa, Sanatana, Jiva, Gopala Bhatta, Raghunatha Bhatta and Raghunatha Dasa: the six scholars and ascetics who settled in Vrindavan in the sixteenth century, wrote the theology of the Gaudiya tradition and helped turn the town into a pilgrimage centre.https://bvml.org/ACBSP/index.htmhttps://bvml.org/ACBSP/index.htm2026-11-06A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (1896–1977) was a Calcutta businessman who became a monk at 63, sailed to New York in 1965 and founded ISKCON. A sourced account of his life, his books and the debates over his legacy.https://bvml.org/SBSST/https://bvml.org/SBSST/2026-11-06Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874–1937), son of Bhaktivinoda Thakura, founded the Gaudiya Math, a renunciant mission with dozens of centres, printing presses and preachers in Europe. His life, his reforms and the controversies they caused.https://bvml.org/SBTP/index.htmhttps://bvml.org/SBTP/index.htm2026-11-06Kedarnath Datta, known as Bhaktivinoda Thakura (1838–1914), was a colonial magistrate who became the leading reformer of Bengali Vaishnavism. His career, his books and songs, his identification of Chaitanya's birthplace and his legacy.https://bvml.org/SBS/index.htmlhttps://bvml.org/SBS/index.html2026-11-06The fifth chapter of the Brahma-samhita, a Sanskrit hymn to Krishna as Govinda, was found by Chaitanya in a temple in Kerala's far south. Its content, its refrain, Jiva Gosvami's commentary and the 1932 English translation.https://bvml.org/SHBM/brs.htmhttps://bvml.org/SHBM/brs.htm2026-11-06Rupa Gosvami's Sanskrit treatise of 1541 turned classical Indian aesthetics into a theology of devotion. Its four 'oceans', its stages from faith to love, and its English translations, including the 1960s version by Bhakti Hridaya Bon.https://bvml.org/SBBTM/buddha.htmlhttps://bvml.org/SBBTM/buddha.html2026-11-06How the Buddha came to be listed among the avatars of Vishnu in the Puranas and in Jayadeva's Gita Govinda, how Vaishnava and Gaudiya authors explained his role, and how Buddhists and historians see the idea.https://bvml.org/contemporary/JD_tsots.htmlhttps://bvml.org/contemporary/JD_tsots.html2026-11-06When Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati died in 1937, the Gaudiya Math split over leadership and property. How the dispute unfolded, the lawsuits and settlement, and the many independent missions that came out of it, including ISKCON.https://bvml.org/texts/bhagavad-gita/https://bvml.org/texts/bhagavad-gita/2026-11-06The Bhagavad-gita is read across Hinduism. How Gaudiya Vaishnava commentators from Vishvanatha Chakravarti to the twentieth century interpreted it, which verses they treated as its core, and the main editions they produced.https://bvml.org/SBBTM/p_sggg.htmlhttps://bvml.org/SBBTM/p_sggg.html2026-11-06Gopal Guru Gosvami, a disciple of Vakreshvara Pandita, was the first head of the Radhakanta Math in Puri, the house where Chaitanya is said to have spent his last years. What the tradition says about him and his successor Dhyanachandra.https://bvml.org/contemporary/tlmogh.htmlhttps://bvml.org/contemporary/tlmogh.html2026-11-06The Beatles guitarist George Harrison (1943–2001) produced the Hare Krishna Mantra single in 1969, helped fund early publications and gave a manor house near London to the movement. A sourced account of his involvement and of what is publicly known about his last days.https://bvml.org/SJG/https://bvml.org/SJG/2026-11-06Jiva Gosvami (c. 1513–1598), nephew of Rupa and Sanatana, gave the Gaudiya tradition its philosophical framework in the Sat-sandarbha. His life, his main works, the Radha-Damodara temple and his role in sending the Vrindavan books to Bengal.https://bvml.org/SBBTM/kalki.htmlhttps://bvml.org/SBBTM/kalki.html2026-11-06Kalki is the tenth and future avatar of Vishnu, expected at the end of the Kali age. What the Bhagavata Purana and later texts say about him, how he is depicted, and how the figure has been used in modern times.https://bvml.org/CE/kazakhstan4.htmlhttps://bvml.org/CE/kazakhstan4.html2026-11-06Between 2006 and 2008 the authorities of the Almaty region demolished homes at a Hare Krishna farming community and contested its land rights in court. What happened, according to Forum 18, RFE/RL and international religious freedom reports.https://bvml.org/SBPKM/index.htmhttps://bvml.org/SBPKM/index.htm2026-11-06Bhakti Prajnana Keshava (1898–1968), a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, founded the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti in 1940 and in 1959 gave the vows of renunciation to A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. A sourced profile.https://bvml.org/photoessays/jagannathapuri/index.htmlhttps://bvml.org/photoessays/jagannathapuri/index.html2026-11-06The Jagannath temple of Puri in Odisha, its deities and gates, the chariot festival, and the places in town associated with Chaitanya's eighteen years there, from the Gambhira to Tota Gopinatha and Siddha Bakula.https://bvml.org/CS/rathayatra.htmlhttps://bvml.org/CS/rathayatra.html2026-11-06How the Ratha-yatra of Puri works, from the building of three new chariots each year to the procession to the Gundicha temple and the return journey, and how the festival spread to cities around the world.https://bvml.org/SBRSM/srm.htmhttps://bvml.org/SBRSM/srm.htm2026-11-06A Bengali song by Narottama Dasa Thakura that addresses Rupa Manjari, the handmaid of Radha identified with Rupa Gosvami. Its themes, its place in the rupanuga tradition, how it is sung and how twentieth-century teachers explained it.https://bvml.org/contemporary/sankarsan.htmlhttps://bvml.org/contemporary/sankarsan.html2026-11-06Before he became A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Abhay Charan De grew up in a merchant family of north Calcutta. What published sources say about his parents, his childhood chariot festival, his college years and his entry into business.