BHAKTIVEDANTA INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER STUDIES

The mission of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies is to advance the study of consciousness and the relationship between science, philosophy, and sacred knowledge through research, education, and dialogue... In 1974, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, expressed a desire to "establish a Vaisnava Research Institute" to present the science of Krishna Consciousness among intellectuals.¹ The following year, in August of 1975, he requested his disciple, Dr. Thoudam D. Singh (Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja - PhD Organic Chemistry), to start such an institute in the United States. In July 1976, while visiting the Washington DC ISKCON, Prabhupada discussed with Singh and a small gathering of scholarly disciples how to organize the Bhaktivedanta Institute, which was intended to interact with an educated audience. Included among the followers were Michael Marchetti (Madhava dasa - PhD..

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