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Srila Prabhupada's Palace of Gold, his samadhi in the West (in West Virginia, USA), attracts thousands of visitors each year. The Palace was recently elected by CNN travel as one of the eight religious wonders to see in U.S.

ISKCON is just a few years away from celebrating its 50th anniversary. The worldwide community starts to gear up for a grand celebration and offering of service to ISKCON-founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

For the 4th time in a row, Italy's Villa Vrindavana will host the "Sravana Kirtanam - Keep Your Faith Alive by Hearing and Singing" festival on 6th and the 7th of July, 2013.

This year marks the 22nd Annual Prabhupada Festival at the New Dwaraka temple in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Prabhupada Festival was founded with the purpose of allowing everyone and anyone to come together to hear about and glorify His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada – The Founder-Acharya of ISKCON.

New Vrindaban (West Virginia, USA) will be hosting a five day green building workshop put on by Blue Rock Station starting on Monday May 13th, immediately after the Festival of Inspiration.

Tsunami of Diseases Headed Our Way - Know Your Food Before Time Runs Out a new 565 page book by Dr. Sahadeva dasa is a bible on the subject of modern food and nutrition.

From Saturday April 20th to Sunday July 28st (14 weeks) Bhakti Raghava Swami will be giving a course entitled “Dharma Sastri” at La Nouvelle Vraja Bhumi located at St-Rémi d’Amherst near Mont-Tremblant (Laurentian Mountains) in the Province of Quebec, Canada.

Ratha Yatra season arrives with the beginning of summer. It’s a time when ISKCON introduces Srila Prabhupada, prasada, the holy name, and especially Lord Jagannatha to thousands of people worldwide!

“Realizing that we are not suspended in the uncertainty of uncaring chance, but are enveloped in the certainty of unfailing love is life’s greatest discovery”: Chaitanya Charan Das reminds us in his newly published book The Gita for Daily Enrichment.

We may read a lot of spiritual knowledge, but sometimes the practical application can be ambiguous and unclear. What practices should I perform on a daily basis? How can I change my lifestyle to support my spirituality?

The annual Festival of Inspiration in the beautiful Appalachian hills of the New Vrindavana community in West Virginia, USA, runs through Mother’s Day weekend and has been inspiring devotees around the world for 13 years.

To expand ISKCON’s preaching mission Srila Prabhupada created sannyasis. Thus the Ministry for Sannyasa Service has established a website to provide information about potential sannyasis to the ISKCON community and to get feedback in order to help in the candidate's training.

The Vrindavan Institute For Highter Education (VIHE) in the 2013-2014 semesters offers Bhakti-shastri in English as well as Hindi starting July 9, 2013. The two courses will run in parallel and will conclude on November 2.

The Teachers Training Course Level 2 (TTC 2) will be offered at New Raman Reti (Alachua, FL, USA). This is a six-hour a day, six-day course that offers a certificate of completion and is the prerequisite for Bhakti Sastri teachers’ certification.

Many readers familiar with the life of Bhakti Tirtha Swami may wonder how Hari-Nama Press has published a new book, considering that the author left this world on June 27, 2005. Printing an author’s book posthumously warrants an explanation.

To inspire ISKCON devotees to increase their desire to distribute more books and thereby make this world more Krishna-conscious, the Book Distribution Ministry and ISKCON Desire Tree has come together to launch a new website

Sri Mayapur International School in Mayapur, West, Bengal, India is a unique school which provides a broad educational program. Their aim is to give the students a strong spiritual foundation, build their character and develop their academic knowledge.

The 2013 US West Coast Vaisnava Women's Retreat will be held March 22 – 24 at Radha’s Garden in the San Diego area.

Elaborating on the Tenth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, through the conversations between young gopis, Sivarama Swami describes how tremendous is the effect of the sound of Krishna's flute on all the moving and nonmoving creatures of Vrindavan.