The Parampara Institution in Gaudiya Vaishnavism (Part I)
This article was written in 1993 and was published in more or less this form in the Journal of Vaishnava Studies. It only recently came to my attention that it had not been published on this blog, which is an ovrsight that I am remedying now. No doubt there are things that should be corrected. For the time beings the links do not work. My apologies. I have not made any revisions, though I have not the slightest doubt that they are needed. I will do so as soon as I get the time to do so.. Great philosophers could not reach the end of your glories, oh Lord, even if they should think on them with increasing joy for æonchars. For, in the form of the intelligence within and the teacher without, you destroy all inauspiciousness and reveal the way to attain you. (1) Contents (Part I): Introduction ISKCON after the departure of Bhaktivedanta Schismatic tendencies in post-Prabhupada ISKCON The first ISKCON heresy: ṛtvik-vāda or the doctrine of the monitor guru...