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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.


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!

The project of creating thematic articles began several years ago. At that time, all was done without the assistance of an LLM. Starting December 3rd, 2025, our Vani team began using Gemini LLM. Thanks to that, productivity skyrocketed incomparably to what was previously done "manually", and the momentum has steadily increased since then. After the first 6 months, we have been able to make 5,000+ articles. We can clearly see a strong acceleration in both production and coordination. At present, there is a dedicated team of 15 devotees actively engaged in:

  • Creating articles
  • Editing content
  • Proofreading and refining
  • Site & IT upkeep


This combined effort is what makes such steady growth possible. What This Means? In only a few months, thousands of structured presentations of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s vāṇī are now becoming accessible to a wider audience. This is not just numerical growth—it reflects an expanding reach and a growing opportunity for people to connect with transcendental knowledge. We are witnessing the steady development of a living Vāṇī temple. With your feedback, insights, and participation, this effort can continue to improve and expand.
Dive straight into the heart of Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings. Discover the most comprehensive, high-impact thematic articles, offering unmatched depth and structured evidence on essential topics:

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

Uniting Śrīla Prabhupāda's Multi-lingual Family

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.



Exploring Śrīla Prabhupāda's Teachings


Who is Śrīla Prabhupāda?

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.



Timeline of Śrīla Prabhupāda's Life

1896 to 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977



Śrīla Prabhupāda's Media Snippets
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The Acharya part 1 of 5 - Srila Prabhupada documentary
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If You Simply Restrain Your Sex Life, You Become A Very Powerful Man
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Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Spiritual master is not a new invention. It is simply following the orders of the spiritual master. So all my students present here who are feeling so much obliged... I am also obliged to them because they are helping me in this missionary work. At the same time, I shall request them all to become spiritual master. Every one of you should be spiritual master next. And what is that duty? Whatever you are hearing from me, whatever you are learning from me, you have to distribute the same in toto without any addition or alteration. Then all of you become the spiritual master. That is the science of becoming spiritual master. Spiritual master is not very... To become a spiritual master is not very wonderful thing. Simply one has to become sincere soul. That's all."
690905 - Lecture Festival Appearance Day, Sri Vyasa-puja - Hamburg




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Vanipedia is an initiative of Bhaktivedanta Library Services a.s.b.l., a non-profit organisation based in Belgium.

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