About Srila Prabhupada Archive
The Srila Prabhupada Archive collects, preserves and shares the original books, lectures, conversations and instructions of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Our mission is simple yet crucial: to ensure the priceless spiritual wisdom of Srila Prabhupada remains easily accessible for generations to come. We aim to be the most comprehensive online resource for Srila Prabhupada’s original words, teachings and instructions — just as he presented them.
With our digital archive system and searchable database, we make this vast treasure trove of spiritual knowledge intuitively navigable and freely available to devotees and spiritual seekers worldwide.
By preserving Srila Prabhupada’s original vani in a carefully organized, digital library, we hope to inspire more souls to learn about Krishna consciousness through exposure to the genuine instructions of ISKCON’s Founder-Ācārya.
With your help and support, we can work together to spread Srila Prabhupada’s message to every town, village and home. Your generous donations help us cover the costs of:
- Digitizing Srila Prabhupada’s original books, lectures and conversations
- Organizing and indexing this immense collection of spiritual wisdom
- Maintaining and improving our website and archive system
- Expanding our digital archives of Srila Prabhupada’s original words
Please consider supporting our mission to preserve Srila Prabhupada’s original teachings and instructions for generations to come. Your donations, large or small, make a real difference in our ability to share Srila Prabhupada’s priceless spiritual wisdom with the world!
This is a sincere attempt to make a wonderfully simple online repository for collaboration and digital preservation of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s body of teachings. Already our GitHub repository is a source for others to draw from, and have been used in a range of other websites as well.
You can download a full copy of all the data we got and use it on your computer in a text editor, on a phone or iPad with a GitHub-compatbile app (example). We might alse make a branch with less markup (remove links and meta headers), possibly convert to markdown (via Pandoc) for broader compatibility if there is demand.
See this file on GitHub as example of our document markup, the same file is published here. We currently tally 70.000 text documents like this, which serve as the backbone for our website. We’ll consider to expand into translations of the original books as well, with community support.
We envision collaboration between ourselves, Bhaktivedanta Archives and other parties who may be interested. This archive could be used by all of us to draw from and contribute to. Who knows what the future holds…? We want others to be able to utilize such a respository to build amazing things with, even long after we’re gone. In the spirit of sharing, where everyone benefits.