Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Ravindra Svarupa Dasa ( William H. Deadwyler, born July 27, 1947) is an American religious scholar. He studied philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and Religious Studies at Temple University, where he earned a doctorate in religious studies. He is the author of numerous essays on Vaishnava theology.

Ravindra Svarupa Dasa joined in 1971 by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON ) in the case. In the same year A. C. initiated him Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON, in the tradition of Gaudiya Vaishnavism - one. Since 1987 he is a member of the Governing Body Commission (GBC ), the governing body of ISKCON. He is initiating spiritual master in the disciplic succession of the Gaudiya Vaishnavism -.

Publications

• "The Contribution of Bhagavat -dharma toward a ' Scientific Religion' and a ' Religious Science ' " in Synthesis of Science and Religion: Critical Essays and Dialogues, ed TDSingh and Ravi Gomatam. (The Bhaktivedanta Institute, 1988).
• "The devotee and the Deity: Living a personalistic Theology " in Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone: The Embodiment of Divinity in India, ed Joanne Punzo Waghorne and Norman Cutler. ( Anima Publications, 1985).
• " Cleaning House and Cleaning Hearts: Reform and Renewal in ISKCON " in The Hare Krishna Movement: The Post Charismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant, ed Edwin Bryant and Maria Ekstrand. (Columbia University Press, 2004).
• " Encounter with the Lord of the Universe: Collected Essays 1978-1983 " (Washington, DC: Gita Nagari Press, 1984 ).