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Building Śrīla Prabhupāda's Vani Temple
Completion Date: November 4th, 2027 - Celebrating 50 Years of Serving in Separation
Welcome to Vanipedia, a dynamic, living encyclopedia of Śrīla Prabhupāda's words (vani). We are building an unparalleled digital repository of his text, audio, video, and images, comprehensively compiling his teachings from every angle of vision. More than just an archive, Vanipedia serves as a continual, worldwide platform for Śrīla Prabhupāda to actively teach the science of Krishna consciousness to the world for the benefit of all.
Introduction
Driven by an unprecedented vision, the Vanipedia project is a monumental and all-encompassing endeavor that unfolds as a magnificent seven-petaled lotus. Currently, four of these petals are actively blooming with the living presence of Śrīla Prabhupāda's eternal teachings:
- Vanipedia Petal: The site where you are now. Here you find over 5,000+ articles brilliantly summarizing the categories compiled in Vaniquotes.
- Vanisource Petal: The digital library. Here you can read the archived collection of Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, lectures, conversations and letters.
- Vaniquotes Petal: The thematic map. Compiling and studying in Vaniquotes is a penetrating way to absorb oneself in Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings. Each Vaniquotes page contains one or more quotes and is organized under a system of categories based either on a theme, personality, scripture or on a key word or key phrase. To date there are over 40,000+ categories, 280,000+ pages, and 2,100,000+ quotes. As this petal grows, it naturally generates the educational material for the rest of the project.
- Vanimedia Petal: The audio-visual archive. Here, you may listen to and watch many audio and video clips of Śrīla Prabhupāda's lectures and conversations.
Steadily, Śrīla Prabhupāda's Vani Temple is becoming continuous festival of association. The global community of devotees appreciating and utilizing Vanipedia is increasing rapidly. By scrolling through What's in Vanipedia NOW you will surely find something that captures your heart and attention.
This global multilingual endeavor (translating in 100 languages) is succeeding entirely by the grace of the devotees - over 1,800 have already come forward to participate. Our Vanipedia's Manifesto reveals the core principles on which we stand and an introduction to Vanipedia is here. Check out our ongoing projects. If you have a question, want to be involved, or just want to say hi, then please contact us!
Vanipedia Articles
The Vanipedia petal is now beginning to unfold. Glancing through the first two completed thematic articles - Animal-Killing in Human Society and Buddha: A Vaisnava Perspective - one can experience the high standard of devotional research within Vanipedia, complete with easily accessed source notes and extensive references for additional reading and study in Vaniquotes. Just imagine the power of delivery to have 500 to 1,000 similar thematic multilingual articles, all interlinked with each other and all accessible in one place, under one platform! We also have some introductory articles that bring to light the wealth of content that Śrīla Prabhupāda delivers to us in Vaniquotes.Completed Introductory Articles to Vaniquotes
- Discovering the Questions asked to Śrīla Prabhupāda
- How to Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's Books
- Scriptural Origins of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Verses
- Śrīla Prabhupāda Initiating His Disciples
- Themes within the Bhagavad-gītā
Vanipedia Projects
Building a Timeline of Śrīla Prabhupāda's Life
- We have completed the major events in Śrīla Prabhupāda's life and also offering a chronological order of all recorded media of Śrīla Prabhupāda's vani. This time-line provides an authoritative documentation of all his existing teachings arranged in order of occurrence.
Study Resources
- Vanipedia is looking for help developing Study Resources for Verses and Purports from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Books.
Vanimedia Projects
Uniting Śrīla Prabhupāda's Multi-lingual Family
- Collaborate with a team of 750+ devotees from 99+ languages to create multi-language subtitles for 1,080 - 1 to 15 minute audio clips translated into your language by Śrīla Prabhupāda's 50th Anniversary of arriving in the West on the 4th of October 2015. Find out the details of the project and check out our current results of 16,400+ subtitles for the 1,080 videos.
- We are placing these videos on YouTube, in our Vanimedia Channel and they can also be accessed via themes. Our YouTube playlists also makes it easy to play the videos in each language.
Prabhupāda Speaks Around the World
- In Vaniquotes you can now listen while reading Śrīla Prabhupāda's lectures, conversations, interviews and morning walks - feel his presence, feel his mood. To date there are over 3,500 pages with clips available and we are aiming for 5,000 by the end of 2015.
Authorized and Empowered
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda is a self-realized, pure devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa and a loving spiritual teacher. His life's mission was singular: to fulfill his spiritual master's desire by introducing the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the world.
He shared the pure essence of Vedic wisdom without restriction, teaching us by his own example how to live according to scripture. Wishing that every person on earth might benefit from his wisdom, he wrote volumes of transcendental literature and left countless recorded instructions to ensure his divine guidance would remain available forever.