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Krishnas work to rebuild community: ; More than 1,000 devotees lived in New Vrindaban in 1980; now there are 100
Charleston Daily Mail; 10/15/2007; ART LIMANN; 557 words
; ... Palace of Gold in Marshall County's New Vrindaban community still looks as impressive as ... the palace - along with the entire New Vrindaban community - have suffered over the past ... and the arrest and conviction of New Vrindaban leader Kirtananda Swami Bhaktipada on ...
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Ex-swami not allowed in New Vrindaban
Charleston Gazette; 6/21/2004; The Associated Press; 224 words
; ... from prison cannot return to the New Vrindaban community he once ran because he is banned ... participating in the functions of ISKCON." New Vrindaban General Manager Kuladri dasa said the ... has no part to play in our future." New Vrindaban, known to many as the Palace of Gold ...
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New Vrindaban
Pittsburgh City Paper; 5/14/2008; Anonymous; 405 words
; ... is the sign that you are entering New Vrindaban, home to the Hare Krishnas. The International ... hills above Moundsville. For a time, New Vrindaban prospered; the astonishing Palace of ... but I visited on a weekday, when New Vrindaban is decidedly empty. The "protected" cows ...
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Krishnas enduring rocky time: New Vrindaban set to file bankruptcy, leader says
Charleston Daily Mail; 2/23/2002; CHRIS STIREWALT; 893 words
; DAILY MAIL STAFF NEW VRINDABAN - Facing bankruptcy and being part ... temples and communities - including New Vrindaban. The leader here said this week that ... abusing two girls and a woman at New Vrindaban in the late 1980s. The charges stemmed ...
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Swami can't return to New Vrindaban
Charleston Daily Mail; 6/19/2004; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; 215 words
; ... from prison cannot return to the New Vrindaban community he once ran because he is banned ... Society for Krishna Consciousness." New Vrindaban General Manager Kuladri Dasa said the ... Society for Krishna Consciousness." New Vrindaban, known to many as the Palace of Gold ...
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A Krishna Clan's Chants for Survival; Its Swami Jailed, a Commune Fights to Keep the Faith
The Washington Post; 9/8/1991; Frank Ahrens; 3827 words
; ... the hub of community activity here at New Vrindaban, the largest Hare Krishna community in North ... people call out. "I'm in Wheeling!" This is news to most of the rank-and-file devotees. Bhaktipada ... deer in a preserve. The devotees greet this news with a whoop. Then, as every day, the questions ... Down ...
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From ashram to condo: transformation of a religious ideal.
Southeast Review of Asian Studies; 1/1/2007; Carney, Gerald T.; 8912 words
; ... culture. Instead, as a religious center, Braj is constituted by these multiple maps of religious life, by layer upon layer of discrete traditions, by multiple religious ... practitioner and scholar, study of Braj culture and of a pilgrimage center like Vrindaban demands skills in avoiding the shoals while ...
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HARE KRISHNA: Belief still strong among 100 devotees living at commune
Charleston Daily Mail; 3/19/2007; STEVE NOVOTNEY; 1650 words
; ... upheaval over leadership. The result at New Vrindaban, according to Marshall County Sheriff John ... was the biggest mistake they made. "New Vrindaban was a community supporting a criminal enterprise ... feel the need to travel through the New Vrindaban community on a daily basis, and the complaints ... a ...
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Slaying puts spotlight on Krishna village
Chicago Sun-Times; 2/28/1988; Thomas Ferraro; 1126 words
; ... to money. The inquiry focuses on New Vrindaban, W.Va., a 2,900-acre Krishna farm village ... allegations of drugs and sexual assault at New Vrindaban and said the swami wanted him dead. The ... elevated to the rank of swami by New Vrindaban. Last March, the Governing Body Commission ...
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Rebuilding its temple
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 4/30/2006; Mark Houser; 1795 words
; ... minutes south of Pittsburgh is dubbed New Vrindaban after a holy city in India and once was ... governing council excommunicated the New Vrindaban sect for heresy. Its founder went to ... scattered. Only 100 still live in New Vrindaban's rundown apartments or in farmhouses ...
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