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{{short description|International Hindu organization}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = World Vaisnava Association —<br>Visva Vaisnava Raj Sabha
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| abbreviation = WVA–VVRS
| image =
| caption =
| predecessor =
| established = {{start date and age|1994|11|18|df=yes|p=y}}<ref name="JonesRyan" /><ref name="UIA" />
| founders = 28 sannyasis and members of 19 missions<ref name="JonesRyan" /><ref name="UIA" />
| founding_location = {{nowrap|[[Vrindavan]], India}}
| type = [[Religious organization]]
| status =
| purpose = {{hlist|[[Mediation]]|[[Educational]]
|[[Missionary]]|[[Religious studies]]|[[Spirituality]]}}
| headquarters = Vrindavan, India<ref name="JonesRyan" />
| coordinates =
| location =
| region_served = Worldwide
| languages = [[English language|English]]
| leader_title = President
| leader_name = Srila Bhakti B. Tirtha Maharaj<ref name="WVA1" />
| main_organ = {{hlist|Council|Managing Committee
|Council Supervisors}}
| affiliations = [[Gaudiya Vaishnavism]]
| num_members =
| website = {{url|wva-vvrs.org/index.htm}}
}}__NOTOC__
{{Vaishnavism}}
The '''World Vaisnava Association''', officially, '''World Vaisnava Association — Visva Vaisnava Raj Sabha (WVA–VVRS)''', is an international [[Gaudiya Vaishnavism|Gaudiya Vaishnava]] religious organization, which had been established in 1994 by some Gaudiya leaders for coordination the global mission for glorification the Supreme Lord [[Krishna]].<ref name="JonesRyan">{{cite encyclopedia |surname=Jones |given=Constance A. |surname2=Ryan |given2=James D. |title=World Vaishnavite Association |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Hinduism |pages=504–505 |url={{Google books|OgMmceadQ3gC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |year=2007 |place=New York |publisher=Facts On File |isbn=978-0-8160-5458-9 |series=Encyclopedia of World Religions. [[J. Gordon Melton]], Series Editor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402211115/https://books.google.com/books?id=OgMmceadQ3gC&pg=PR17 |archive-date=2020-04-02 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Brzezinski">{{cite book|surname=Brzezinski |given=Jan |chapter=Charismatic Renewal and Institutionalization in the History of Gaudiya Vashnavism and the Gaudiya Math |editor-surname1=Bryant |editor-given1=Edwin F. |editor-surname2=Ekstrand |editor-given2=Maria L. |editor-link1=Edwin F. Bryant |title=The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant |place=New York |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |year=2004 |page=90 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBMxPdgrBhoC&pg=PA90 |url= {{Google books|mBMxPdgrBhoC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |isbn=0-231-12256-X}}</ref> The name of organization refers to the Visva Vaisnava Raj Sabha ("Royal World Vaisnava Association") formed in 1885 by [[Bhaktivinoda Thakur]] and to [[Vaishnavism]] in whole. Howsoever, ''de facto'', the WVA was founded and includes only Gaudiya Vaishnavas, and barely from splinted branches of the revivalist reformist order of the first half of the 20th century, [[Gaudiya Math]].<ref name="JonesRyan" /><ref name="Brzezinski" /><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |surname=Jones |given=Constance A. |surname2=Ryan |given2=James D. |title=Gaudiya Math |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Hinduism |page=165 |url={{Google books|OgMmceadQ3gC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |year=2007 |place=New York |publisher=Facts On File |isbn=978-0-8160-5458-9 |series=Encyclopedia of World Religions. [[J. Gordon Melton]], Series Editor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402211115/https://books.google.com/books?id=OgMmceadQ3gC&pg=PR17 |archive-date=2020-04-02 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Srila puri mj1.jpg|thumb|250px|Bhakti Pramod Puri Goswami (1898–1999), the first president of the WVA–VVRS, founder-acharya of the Sri Gopinatha Gaudiya Math.]]

Already in February 1994 the leaders published initial copy of the periodical ''World Vaisnava Association Newsletter''. In November 1994 a founding meeting joined 120 participants.<ref name="JonesRyan" /> Among the WVA prominent founding members were the 97-year-old {{ill|Bhakti Pramod Puri Goswami|ru|Бхакти Прамод Пури Госвами}} (who became the WVA first president),<ref name="JonesRyan" /> [[Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha]] (a vice-president), {{ill|Paramadvaiti Swami|es|Paramadvaiti Swami}} (a former secretary)<ref name="VINA2021">{{cite news |url=https://www.vina.cc/2021/06/27/former-paramadvaiti-swami-dismissed-as-leader-of-the-wva/# |title=Former Paramadvaiti Swami dismissed as leader of the WVA |publisher=VINA Vaishnava Internet News Agency |date=27 June 2021 |access-date=2022-03-14}}</ref> and Tripurari Swami.<ref name="Paramadvaiti">{{cite book |surname=Paramadvaiti |given=Swami B. A. |title=Our Family — the Gaudiya Math. A study of the expansion of Gaudiya Vaisnavism and the many branches developing around the Gaudiya Math |url=https://vrindavan.org/English/Books/GM/GMI.html |year=1999 |publisher=VRINDA The Vrindavan Institute for Vaisnava Culture and Studies |isbn=3-927745-90-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413004753/http://www.vrindavan.org/English/Books/GM/GMI.html |archive-date=2019-04-13 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Association united most of the named branches. At the same time, such well-known successors of the Gaudiya Math as the [[Gaudiya Mission]] and [[ISKCON]] are not its members. ISKCON participates only by some figures, such as [[Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami]].{{sfn|Paramadvaiti|1999|loc=Part 2}}

The WVA recognizes solely traditional denominations,{{Disputed inline|for=No members of the traditional Gaudiya Vaishnava lineages (parivars) are members of the WVA|date=January 2025}} those perceive extraordinal role of the Gaudiya Math,{{Clarify|date=January 2025|reason=What does this mean?}}{{sfn|Paramadvaiti|1999|loc=Part 1}} and are not promoting any particular teachings (as example of rejected novation,{{Clarify|date=January 2025|reason=Should this be "innovation"?}} the ideas of the [[ISKCON Revival Movement|''ritvik'' movement]]).{{sfn|Paramadvaiti|1999|loc=Part 3}}

The main structure of the WVA comprises a Council, a Managing Committee and a Council Supervisors.<ref name="UIA">{{cite encyclopedia |title=World Vaisnava Association (WVA) |encyclopedia=[[Yearbook of International Organizations]] Online |year=2008 |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100046541 |publisher=UIA [[Union of International Associations]] |access-date=2022-03-14}}</ref> Since 2002, the president of WVA is the acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Gaudiya Math, Srila Bhakti B. Tirtha Maharaj.<ref name="WVA1">{{cite web |url=http://www.wva-vvrs.org/pbook/pkb16.htm |title=Srila Bhakti B. Tirtha Maharaj |publisher=World Vaisnava Association |website=wva-vvrs.org |access-date=2022-03-14}}</ref> And the main forums are twice a year organizational meetings.{{sfn|Paramadvaiti|1999|loc=Part 1}} Thou, as notes in 2004 the scholar Jan Brzezinski, there is little real cooperation among these branches, and the World Vaisnava Association has not "met with much success."<ref name="Brzezinski" />

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{official website|wva-vvrs.org/index.htm|World Vaisnava Association}} official website
* {{Facebook|id=wva.vvrs|name=World Vaishnava Association}}

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