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Krishna Dharma born as Kenneth Anderson (born 1955 in London) is a British Hindu scholar and author.[1][2]
About
Krishna Dharma is "the author of the English editions of Indian epics": the Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom (1998) and the Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time (1999).[1][3] He is also a contributor to the press and a regular radio broadcaster.[1]
Krishna Dharma was born as Kenneth Anderson in 1955 in London.[4] In his youth he served as a merchant navy officer.[3] In 1979 he joined ISKCON and started following the chaitanya vaisnavism or sanatan dharma .[4] Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has offered seminars and lectures on the Vedas and associated disciplines.[1] In 1986 he established the first ISKCON temple in Manchester, England, and served there as a temple president until 2001.[1] In 1989 he started in Manchester a "Hare Krishna Food for Life" programme, which has become the largest free food distribution effort in the city.[5] He is married to Cintamani Devi Dasi and has three children, Madhava, Radhika, and Janaki.[5] He lives with his family in Hertfordshire.[1]
In 1999 Krishna Dharma published the first edition of his adaptation of the Mahabharata. British author and journalist James Meek wrote in his review in The Guardian:[3] Template:Blockquote
Works
Template:VaishnavismKrishna Dharma's works are published by the Torchlight Publications company and by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
- Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}. Torchlight Publishing(1999). ISBN 1-887089-17-9
- Mahabharata: The Condensed Version of the World's Greatest Epic{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}. Torchlight Publishing(2001). ISBN 1-887089-25-X
- Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}. Torchlight Publishing(2004). ISBN 1-887089-06-3
- Panchatantra: "five Wise Lessons" : a Vivid Retelling of India's Most Famous Collection of Fables{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}. Torchlight Publishing(2004). ISBN 1-887089-45-4
- Beauty, Power and Grace: The Many Faces Of The Goddess{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}. Mandala Publishing(2004). ISBN 1-886069-89-1
- Caring for Hindu Patients{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}. Radcliffe Publishing(2008)
- The Hare Krishna movement: forty years of chant and change{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}. I.B. Tauris(2007)
- Let's all just karma down{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}(6 February 1999)
- The new war on ignorance{{#if:Krishna Dharma|, Krishna Dharma}(29 September 2001)
References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- The Hare Krishna Movement: Forty Years of Chant and Change. I.B.Tauris.
- The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant{{#if:Bryant|, Bryant}. Columbia University Press(2004). ISBN 0-231-12256-X
- Vaiṣṇavī: women and the worship of Krishna{{#if:Rosen|, Rosen}. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers(1996). ISBN 81-208-1438-X
- Novel slant on spreading the word(12 August 1999).
- Health: Things to make you go 'Om'{{#if:Manson|, Manson}(19 August 1999)
- Twice Born: Retelling the Mahabharata, potboiler style(11 October 1999).
- Madonna's Holy Grail{{#if:Kirn|, Kirn}(1 April 2000)
- The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic{{#if:Menon|, Menon}. Farrar, Straus and Giroux(2004). ISBN 0-86547-695-0
External links
- Personal site of Krishna Dharma
- UK ISKCON Devotees: Krishna Dharma Dasa
- Krishna Dharma dasa
- Krishna Dharma dasa
- Articles on Dandavats.com