The debate on Vaisnavi (female) diksa gurus: GBC resolutions and process, sastric and historical arguments, responses, related women’s upanayana/sannyasa questions.
A week after his exchange with Damodara Dasa under an Akincana Gocara post, Rohini-tanaya Dasa has set out his case…
A Facebook reel asks whether a clip of Bhakti Vikasa Swami and Basu Ghosh Das on female diksa gurus was…
Image: Akincana Gocara (AI-generated), from a photo of Srila Prabhupada published by Sri Mayapur Dhama FACEBOOK — A debate over…
In a phone video recorded at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Ashram in Govardhan, the ashram’s temple president, an ISKCON initiating guru, says…
In a 90-second video, the author of the ISKCON India Scholars Board’s recent paper on female diksa-gurus in Gaudiya history…
A three-minute video from the ISKCON India Scholars Board argues that the Sastric Advisory Council’s 2005 paper on female diksa-gurus,…
The Governing Body Commission has resolved that no ISKCON guru may give first, second or sannyasa initiation from 1 December…
Akincana Gocara publishes the video recordings of eight meetings of the GBC’s Global Vaiṣṇavī Dīkṣā-Guru Committee, held between 14 July…
Without a public announcement, the Governing Body Commission has rebuilt its website, gathered every resolution since 1975 into one searchable…
WADA, India — As the GBC devoted the second and third days of its 2026 Midterm General Meeting at Govardhan…