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'''Hridaya Chaitanya [[Dasa]]''', also known as '''Herman Janssens''' (born March 10, 1950), is temple president of [[Radhadesh]], leader and [[Governing Body Commission]]er for [[Hinduism in Belgium#ISKCON in Belgium|Belgian ISKCON]], Co-GBC for the [[Benelux]],<ref name ="IN 09">{{cite web
|url=http://news.iskcon.com/node/648/bhaktivedanta_college_lays_cornerstone_for_new_building|date=2007-10-18
|access-date = 2009-03-17
|title = Bhaktivedanta College Lays Cornerstone For New Building
|publisher = ISKCON News
}}</ref> and a member of the "Executive Committee of the ISKCON GBC Society".<ref name ="IN 092">{{cite web
|url=http://news.iskcon.com/node/1799/2009-03-08/gbc_ec_response_madhu_pandit_dasa%E2%80%99s_peace_proposal|date=2009-03-08
|access-date = 2009-03-17
|title = GBC EC Response to Madhu Pandit Dasa's Peace Proposal
|publisher = ISKCON News
}}</ref> He and his wife are disciples of [[Satsvarupa dasa Goswami]].<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.sdgonline.org/vraja_journal/vrindavana_13.html
|title=Vrindavana Journal 2009. February - Part 13
|publisher=[[GN Press]]
|access-date=2009-03-17
|author=Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
|author-link=Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
}}
</ref> Belgian by origin he has joined the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness|Hare Krishna]] community of [[Amsterdam]] in 1980 at the age of thirty after leaving a teaching job.  Hridaya Caitanya is the GBC since 2002. More recently he became the current Euro-GBC for Benelux. He is part of the [[Durbuy]] community of Radhadesh from 1980. In 1986 he became temple president of the largest Belgian centre which includes a traditional bakery, an Indian boutique, a cafeteria, a vegetarian restaurant, Gopinatha's Garden, and, as from July 2002, a guest house.  [[Bhaktivedanta College]] is part of the same campus. The official name of Radhadesh is Maison d'hôtes Radhadesh and it is a prominent [[ISKCON]] facility with a conference room and educational courses. The Radhadesh (lit. 'the land of Radha') is the most important temple in the Benelux and second prominent temple of European ISKCON. The tours in and around the castle form one of the most important sources of income of his project.<ref>Johan Leman, Hannelore Roos, ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'', [[Routledge]], ''[http://soc.kuleuven.be/immrc/pdf%20artikelen/Leman/Krishna.pdf The Process of Growth in Krishna Consciousness and Sacredness in Belgium]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}'', 11 October 2007</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.eurogbc.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=68
|title=Euro GBC
|publisher=Euro [[Governing Body Commission]]
|access-date=2009-03-17
}}
</ref> One of the most attractive features of his temple is that educational seminars are held there making it a [[Vaishnava]] education centre of Europe.<ref>{{Citation
| last1 = Ekstrand
| first1 = Maria
| last2 = Bryant
| first2 = Edwin H.
| year = 2004
| pages = 448
| quote = Seminars are held occasionally at various ISKCON centers and annually in Mayapur and Vrindavan, India, Gita Nagari in Pennsylvania, and Radhadesh in Belgium.
| title = The Hare Krishna movement: the postcharismatic fate of a religious transplant
| publisher=Columbia University Press
| location=New York
| isbn=0-231-12256-X}}</ref> From 2008 he has taken up service of an administrator/manager (gerant) with a responsibility of coordinating the task force in regard to the ISKCON Dole project.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.eurogbc.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=140&Itemid=86
|title=Minutes of the Euro GBC Meeting Mayapur, India, 5 March 2008
|access-date=2009-03-17
}}</ref>

==References and notes==
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==External links==
*{{cite web
|url=http://www.radhadesh.com/en
|title=Spiritual India in the Belgian Ardennes 
|publisher=Radhadesh
}}
*{{cite web
|url=http://www.chakra.org/announcements/eventsAug24_05.html
|title=Radhadesh Reunion Festival
|publisher=www.chakra.org
|access-date=2009-03-17
|last= H. Caitanya
|first=M. Dasa
}}

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