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Krishna Dharma born as Kenneth Anderson (born 1955 in London) is a British Hindu scholar and author.[1][2]
About[edit]
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]
With its intense love scenes, jewelled palaces, vast battles, superheroes, magical weapons and warring families, the novelised version resembles a 20th century saga-cum-soap opera, a marriage of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Arthur Hailey.
Works[edit]
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Krishna Dharma's works are published by the Torchlight Publications company and by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
- Krishna Dharma (1999). Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time. Torchlight Publishing. ISBN 1-887089-17-9.
- Krishna Dharma (2001). Mahabharata: The Condensed Version of the World's Greatest Epic. Torchlight Publishing. ISBN 1-887089-25-X.
- Krishna Dharma (2004). Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom. Torchlight Publishing. ISBN 1-887089-06-3.
- Krishna Dharma (2004). Panchatantra: "five Wise Lessons" : a Vivid Retelling of India's Most Famous Collection of Fables (illustrated ed.). Torchlight Publishing. ISBN 1-887089-45-4.
- Krishna Dharma (2004). Beauty, Power and Grace: The Many Faces Of The Goddess (illustrated ed.). Mandala Publishing. ISBN 1-886069-89-1.
- Krishna Dharma; Aery, Vipin; Rasamandala Das (2008). "Hinduism:the tradition speaks for itself". In Thakrar, Diviash; Rasamandala Das; Sheikh, Aziz (eds.). Caring for Hindu Patients (illustrated, revised ed.). Radcliffe Publishing. pp. 5–23.
- Krishna Dharma (2007). "Spiritual solutions to material problems: ISKCON and the Modern World". In Dwyer, Graham; Cole, Richard J. (eds.). The Hare Krishna movement: forty years of chant and change (illustrated ed.). I.B. Tauris. pp. 121–133.
- Krishna Dharma (6 February 1999). Let's all just karma down.
{{cite book}}:|newspaper=ignored (help) - Krishna Dharma (29 September 2001). The new war on ignorance.
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References[edit]
- Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Dwyer & Cole 2007, p. 269
- ↑ Nair 1999
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Meek 1999
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Krishna Dharma dasa Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Krishna Dharma dasa Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine ISKCON Communications Journal
- Bibliography
- Dwyer, Graham; Cole, Richard J. (2007), The Hare Krishna Movement: Forty Years of Chant and Change, I.B.Tauris, ISBN 1-84511-407-8
- Bryant, Edwin; Ekstrand, Maria (2004). The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12256-X.
- Rosen, Steven J. (1996). Vaiṣṇavī: women and the worship of Krishna. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. ISBN 81-208-1438-X.
- Meek, James (12 August 1999), "Novel slant on spreading the word", The Guardian
- Manson, Louise (19 August 1999). Health: Things to make you go 'Om'.
{{cite book}}:|newspaper=ignored (help) - Nair, Mahesh (11 October 1999), "Twice Born: Retelling the Mahabharata, potboiler style", India Today, archived from the original on 26 January 2013
- Kirn, Maggie (1 April 2000). Madonna's Holy Grail.
{{cite book}}:|newspaper=ignored (help) - Menon, Ramesh (2004). The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-86547-695-0.