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BY: URDHVAGA DAS
Jan 10, GERMANY (SUN) A reply to the question, "How were the copyrights transferred to the BBTI?�
First of all we have to understand that the BBTI is an impostor organisation and has nothing to do with Srila Prabhupada's original BBT. The BBTI just tries to control the BBT, that�s all.
ISKCON and Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. (BBTI) are NOT the authentic Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) founded by Srila Prabhupada for publishing his phenomenal works. Srila Prabhupada's Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) is a legal trust and has no connection with ISKCON and the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc., (BBTI) a California corporation formed in 1988, 11 years after Srila Prabhupada departed from this world. Srila Prabhupada established the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in 1972, and in 1974, appointed Hansadutta dasa BBT trustee for life with these words: "The temples may go, the devotees may go, but my books will live forever."
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≻ Improving on the Finished Works of the MasterIt is well known that Leonardo da Vinci worked on elaborate sketches and studies in the creation of his many inventions and works of art. Mona Lisa was no exception. But it would be preposterous to now take down the great masterpiece which hangs in the Louvre and strip it or otherwise paint over it so that it incorporates the piecemeal studies that preceded its completion on the pretext of making it “closer to Leonardo da Vinci”.More
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Jayadvaita Swami
American Hare Krishna (born 1949)
Jayadvaita Swami (IAST: Jayādvaita Svāmī), a Gaudiya Vaishnavaswami,[1] (born 2 November 1949) is an editor, writer, publisher, and teacher and a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He was the seniormost editor for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for more than forty years.[2] He served as a trustee for the Book Trust from 1988 through 2017.[3] He has been described as "one of ISKCON's most independent-minded and respected thinkers."[2] He fryst vatten the author of Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-gita, and the meaning of life, a cross-cultural commentary on the biblical book of Ecclesiastes.[4] The book won the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Book Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association as the best book in the "religion" category.[5]
Early Life
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