15 Facts About Hansadutta Swami

Hansadutta Das, formerly Hansadutta Swami, born 27 May 1941 in Braunschweig, Germany, died 25 April 2020 in California, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual leader.

Hansadutta Swami was born Hans Jurgen Kary and known by the alias Jack London.

Hansadutta Swami assisted with the pioneering of the Hare Krishna movement, opening centers and preaching in Canada: Montreal and Vancouver; Europe: Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia; in US: Boston, Berkeley; and in Asia: Turkey, Cairo, Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia.

Bhaktivedanta Hansadutta Swami to serve as lifetime trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

Bhaktivedanta Swami approved Hansadutta's proposal to print the exchange and instructed that it should be included in his own publication titled "Life Comes from Life".

In July 1977, Hansadutta was one of eleven disciples named by Bhaktivedanta Swami to act as "ritviks", or "initiating acaryas", who would initiate new disciples.

Four months after Bhaktivedanta Swami died on 14 November 1977, as part of ISKCON's Zonal Acharya system, Hansadutta began initiating disciples primarily within zones assigned to him, namely North America, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Philippines.

In 1980, Hansadutta Swami was arrested for possession of illegal weapons.

In 1993, Hansadutta published a collection of essays, letters and articles under the title Srila Prabhupada, His Movement and You, in which he presented arguments and evidence in support of continuation of the parampara as a "ritvik", or representative, of Bhaktivedanta Swami.

On 13 November 1998, Hansadutta agreed to a stipulated court settlement that effectively terminated any claims he might have had to being a trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust conditional upon receipt of an undisclosed cash settlement and license to publish the original, unrevised books of Bhaktivedanta Swami.

Hansadutta Swami's parents immigrated from Germany to the United States when he was nine or ten years old.

In 1976 Hansadutta Swami took the order of sannyasa, and Himavati remarried a few years later.

In 1984, Hansadutta Swami married Lakshmi Kary, with whom he had three children.

Bhaktivedanta Hansadutta Swami, which was recorded in a makeshift studio at Schloss Rettershof near Frankfurt, Germany.

In or around 1982, Hansadutta Swami recorded and produced the LP cover "The Vision".