Jayapataka Swami
His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Acāryapāda | |
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Svāmī in 2006 | |
| Title | Ācharyapāda |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Gordon John Erdman II April 9, 1949 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Philosophy | Achintya Bheda Abheda |
| School | Vaiṣṇavism |
| Lineage | Brahma-Madhva-Gauḍīya Sampradāya |
| Sect | Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism |
| Monastic name | Jaya-patākā Svāmī |
| Ordination | Gauḍīya Sannyāsa, 1970, Calcutta, by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī |
| Initiation | Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Dīkṣā 1968 Montreal, Canada by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher | A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī |
| Post | ISKCON Sannyasin, ISKCON Guru-Ācārya, ISKCON Governing Body Commissioner |
| Predecessor | A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī |
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Jayapataka Swami (IAST: Jaya-patākā Svāmī); born on April 9, 1949) is a Vaishnava swami and a religious leader for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He is a senior disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 2004 he was one of the initiating spiritual masters, (ISKCON Gurus), a member of the Governing Body Commission (GBC), and a divisional trustee for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT). He is one of the senior-most sannyasis in the Hare Krishna movement.