Seeing Krishna in America
The Hindu Bhakti Tradition of Vallabhacharya in India and Its Movement to the West| By: | E. Allen Richardson |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9780786459735 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781476615967 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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The Hindu sect the Vallabha Sampradaya was founded in India in the 15th century by a devotional saint, Vallabhacharya. Their bhakti tradition worships a variety of forms of Krishna as a seven-year-old child. Following U.S. immigration reforms in 1965, members of the sect established a spiritual headquarters for the faith in Pennsylvania and began to construct temples across the United States. Since then, the growth has continued as this 500-year-old faith becomes an American religion, as this work demonstrates.