Kashmiri

Pandit

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Pandits

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Total

population

est

living

in

Kashmir

Valley

prior

to

Regions

with

significant

populations

India

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and

Kashmir

National

Capital

Region

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Pradesh

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Pradesh

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and

Hindi

Religion

Hinduism

Related

ethnic

groups

Indians

Dards

Hindustani

people

IndoAryans

Saraswat

Brahmins

Indian

diaspora

The

Kashmiri

Pandits

also

known

as

Kashmiri

Brahmins

are

a

Saraswat

Brahmin

community

from

the

Kashmir

Valley

a

mountainous

region

in

the

Indian

state

of

Jammu

and

Kashmir

Kashmiri

Pandits

are

the

original

inhabitants

of

the

Kashmir

Valley

and

are

the

only

remaining

Kashmiri

Hindu

community

native

to

Kashmir

Contents

History

Early

history

Medieval

history

Modern

history

Early

modern

Modern

Sub

categories

Recent

events

Exodus

from

Kashmir

PRC

and

the

JKMIP

Acts

Sociopolitical

organisations

Population

distribution

Religious

beliefs

Culture

Dress

Music

Pilgrimage

sites

See

also

Bibliography

External

links

History

Photograph

of

the

Martand

Sun

Temple

Hardy

Coles

Archaeological

Survey

of

India

Report

Illustrations

of

Ancient

Buildings

in

Kashmir

Early

history

See

also

History

of

Kashmir

According

to

Kashmir

Pandits

they

have

a

history

spanning

over

five

thousand

years

The

Hindu

caste

system

of

the

Kashmir

region

was

influenced

by

the

influx

of

Buddhism

from

the

time

of

Asoka

around

the

third

century

BCE

and

a

consequence

of

this

was

that

the

traditional

lines

of

varna

were

blurred

with

the

exception

of

that

for

the

Brahmins

who

remained

aloof

from

the

changes

Another

notable

feature

of

early

Kashmiri

society

was

the

relative

high

regard

in

which

women

were

held

when

compared

to

their

position

in

other

communities

of

the

period

A

historically

contested

region

Northern

India

was

subject

to

attack

from

Turkic

and

Arab

regimes

from

the

eighth

century

onwards

but

they

generally

ignored

the

mountaincircled

Kashmir

Valley

in

favour

of

easier

pickings

elsewhere

It

was

not

until

the

fourteenth

century

that

Muslim

rule

was

finally

established

in

the

Valley

and

when

this

happened

it

did

not

occur

primarily

as

a

consequence

of

invasion

so

much

as

because

of

internal

problems

resulting

from

the

weak

rule

and

corruption

endemic

in

the

Hindu

Lohara

dynasty

Mohibbul

Hasan

describes

this

collapse

as

The

Dãmaras

feudal

chiefs

grew

powerful

defied

royal

authority

and

by

their

constant

revolts

plunged

the

country

into

confusion

Life

and

property

were

not

safe

agriculture

declined

and

there

were

periods

when

trade

came

to

a

standstill

Socially

and

morally

too

the

court

and

the

country

had

sunk

to

the

depths

of

degradations

The

Brahmins

had

something

to

be

particularly

unhappy

about

during

the

reign

of

the

last

Lohara

king

for

Sūhadeva

chose

to

include

them

in

his

system

of

onerous

taxation

whereas

previously

they

appear

to

have

been

exempted

Medieval

history

Zulju

who

was

probably

a

Mongol

from

Turkistan

wreaked

devastation

in

when

he

commanded

a

force

that

conquered

many

regions

of

the

Kashmir

Valley

However

Zulju

was

probably

not

a

Muslim

The

actions

of

Sultan

Sikandar

Butshikan

the

seventh

Muslim

ruler

in

Kashmir

were

also

significant

to

the

area

The

Sultan

has

been

referred

to

as

an

iconoclast

because

of

his

destruction

of

many

nonMuslim

religious

symbols

and

the

manner

in

which

he

forced

the

population

to

convert

or

flee

Many

followers

of

the

traditional

religions

who

did

not

convert

to

Islam

instead

migrated

to

other

parts

of

India

The

migrants

included

some

Pandits

although

it

is

possible

that

some

of

this

community

relocated

for

economic

reasons

as

much

as

to

escape

the

new

rulers

Brahmins

were

at

that

time

generally

being

offered

grants

of

land

in

other

areas

by

rulers

seeking

to

utilise

the

traditionally

high

literacy

and

general

education

of

the

community

as

well

as

the

Butshikans

heir

the

devout

Muslim

ZainulAbidin

was

tolerant

of

Hindus

to

the

extent

of

sanctioning

a

return

to

Hinduism

of

those

who

had

been

forcibly

converted

to

the

Muslim

faith

as

well

as

becoming

involved

in

the

restoration

of

temples

He

respected

the

learning

of

these

Pandits

to

whom

he

gave

land

as

well

as

encouraging

those

who

had

left

to

return

He

operated

a

meritocracy

and

both

Brahmins

and

Buddhists

were

among

his

closest

advisors

Modern

history

Three

Hindu

priests

writing

religious

texts

Jammu

and

Kashmir

A

young

Jawaharlal

Nehru

with

his

mother

Swarup

Rani

Nehru

and

father

Motilal

Nehru

in

the

The

Nehrus

were

a

westernized

Pandit

family

whose

ancestors

had

left

Kashmir

in

the

century

Early

modern

Akbar

conquered

Kashmir

in

AD

During

his

Mughal

rule

the

Hindus

enjoyed

security

of

person

and

property

and

were

allotted

high

government

posts

It

was

he

who

pleased

with

their

intelligence

gave

them

the

surname

Pandit

The

Mughals

rule

was

followed

by

that

of

Afghans

Gradually

many

Kashmiris

converted

to

Islam

leaving

a

smaller

population

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

who

still

practiced

the

Shaivite

religion

Not

much

was

done

to

win

back

the

converts

to

Hinduism

The

majority

though

still

remained

Hindus

in

Jammu

and

Kashmir

The

Kashmiri

Brahmins

established

themselves

in

the

Northern

area

of

India

first

in

the

Rajput

and

Mughal

courts

and

then

in

the

service

of

the

Dogra

rulers

of

Kashmir

This

cohesive

community

highly

literate

and

socially

elite

were

one

of

the

first

to

discuss

and

implement

social

reforms

Sub

categories

The

society

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

is

divided

mainly

into

followingsubcategoriess

Banmasi

who

had

initially

migrated

from

the

valley

during

the

rule

of

Muslim

kings

and

later

returned

and

Malmasi

who

stayed

back

in

valley

despite

all

odds

Both

categories

had

different

customs

and

traditions

Later

the

Pandits

who

started

doing

business

were

categorised

as

Buhirs

The

difference

between

categories

has

faded

due

to

mass

migration

from

onwards

Recent

events

Exodus

from

Kashmir

Main

article

Exodus

of

Kashmiri

Hindus

The

Kashmiri

Pandits

had

been

a

favoured

section

of

the

population

of

the

valley

during

Dogra

rule

per

cent

of

them

left

the

valley

as

a

consequence

of

the

land

reforms

and

by

the

Pandit

population

amounted

to

per

cent

of

the

total

They

began

to

leave

in

much

greater

numbers

in

the

during

the

eruption

of

militancy

following

persecution

and

threats

by

radical

Islamists

and

militants

The

events

of

January

were

particularly

vicious

On

that

day

mosques

issued

declarations

that

the

Kashmiri

Pandits

were

Kafirs

and

that

the

males

had

to

leave

Kashmir

convert

to

Islam

or

be

killed

Those

who

chose

to

the

first

of

these

were

told

to

leave

their

women

behind

The

Kashmiri

Muslims

were

instructed

to

identify

Pandit

homes

so

they

could

be

systematically

targeted

for

conversion

or

killing

According

to

a

number

of

authors

approximately

of

the

total

Kashmiri

Pandit

population

of

left

the

valley

during

the

Other

authors

have

suggested

a

higher

figure

for

the

exodus

ranging

from

the

entire

population

of

over

to

of

a

total

Pandit

population

of

to

a

number

as

high

as

The

nature

of

the

planned

exodus

has

remain

controversial

with

the

involvement

of

then

Governor

Jagmohan

in

organizing

a

clandestine

exodus

been

a

subject

of

controversy

Many

of

the

refugee

Kashmiri

Pandits

have

been

living

in

abject

conditions

in

refugee

camps

of

Jammu

The

government

has

reported

on

the

terrorist

threats

to

Pandits

still

living

in

the

Kashmir

region

Some

Hindus

across

India

tried

to

help

the

Pandits

Bal

Thackeray

from

Maharashtra

got

seats

reserved

in

engineering

colleges

for

the

children

of

these

Pandits

He

was

one

of

the

first

persons

to

help

them

after

which

Punjab

also

followed

suit

In

Oregon

Legislative

Assembly

passed

a

resolution

to

recognise

September

as

Martyrs

Day

to

acknowledge

ethnic

cleansing

and

campaigns

of

terror

inflicted

on

nonMuslim

minorities

of

Jammu

and

Kashmir

by

terrorists

seeking

to

establish

an

Islamic

state

In

the

Government

of

Jammu

and

Kashmir

noted

that

Pandit

families

comprising

people

were

still

living

in

the

Valley

and

that

financial

and

other

incentives

put

in

place

to

encourage

others

to

return

there

had

been

unsuccessful

According

to

a

JK

government

report

members

of

the

community

had

been

killed

in

the

region

between

and

but

thereafter

The

local

organisation

of

pandits

in

Kashmir

Kashmir

Pandit

Sangharsh

Samiti

after

carrying

out

a

survey

in

and

said

that

Kashmiri

Pandits

were

killed

by

insurgents

from

to

with

of

them

being

killed

during

the

first

year

of

the

Kashmiri

insurgency

The

exiled

community

had

hoped

to

return

after

the

situation

improved

They

have

not

done

so

because

the

situation

in

the

Valley

remains

unstable

and

they

fear

a

risk

to

their

lives

As

of

October

only

Kashmiri

Pandit

family

returned

to

the

Kashmir

valley

since

according

to

the

Jammu

Kashmir

government

despite

the

financial

assistance

being

given

for

rehabilitation

As

of

a

total

of

Kashmiri

Pandit

youths

have

returned

to

the

valley

since

the

announcing

of

Rs

package

in

by

the

UPA

government

PRC

and

the

JKMIP

Acts

There

are

zones

set

up

with

offices

for

relief

Many

Orders

Circulars

and

recommendations

have

been

issued

for

relief

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

The

Jammu

And

Kashmir

Migrant

Immovable

Property

Preservation

Protection

And

Restraint

On

Distress

Sales

Act

provides

that

Any

person

who

is

an

unauthorised

occupant

or

recipient

of

any

usufruct

of

any

immovable

property

of

the

migrant

shall

pay

to

the

migrant

such

compensation

for

the

period

of

unauthorised

occupation

and

in

such

a

manner

as

may

be

determined

by

the

District

Magistrate

Sociopolitical

organisations

Following

the

migration

of

the

Kashmiri

Pandit

community

various

sociopolitical

organisations

have

sprung

up

to

represent

the

cause

of

the

displaced

community

The

most

prominent

among

these

are

the

All

India

Kashmiri

Samaj

or

AIKS

All

India

Kashmiri

Pandit

conference

Panun

Kashmir

Kashmiri

Samiti

These

organisations

are

involved

in

rehabilitation

of

the

community

in

the

valley

through

peace

negotiations

mobilisation

of

human

rights

groups

and

job

creation

for

the

Pandits

Panun

Kashmir

has

made

demands

for

a

separate

homeland

for

the

community

in

the

southern

part

of

Kashmir

Population

distribution

In

the

Pandits

made

up

about

percent

of

the

Kashmir

Valleys

population

By

their

population

declined

to

per

cent

as

many

Pandits

moved

to

other

parts

of

India

due

to

the

uncompensated

land

redistribution

policy

the

unsettled

nature

of

Kashmirs

accession

to

India

and

the

threat

of

economic

and

social

decline

Following

the

insurgency

a

great

majority

of

Pandits

felt

threatened

and

left

the

Kashmir

Valley

to

other

parts

of

India

A

large

number

settled

in

the

Jammu

Division

of

the

State

and

the

National

Capital

Region

of

India

Some

emigrated

to

other

countries

entirely

By

only

an

estimated

Pandits

remained

in

the

Kashmir

Valley

According

to

Indian

government

more

than

families

are

registered

as

Kashmiri

migrants

including

some

Sikh

and

Muslim

families

Most

families

were

resettled

in

Jammu

NCR

and

other

neighbouring

states

Religious

beliefs

Shiv

Lingam

in

Zaethyar

Srinagar

Kashmiri

Hindus

are

all

Saraswat

Brahmins

known

by

their

exonym

of

Pandit

The

endonym

used

within

the

community

is

Bhatta

Kashmiri

Pandits

are

chiefly

followers

of

Shiva

Their

favourite

goddess

is

Kheer

Bhawani

The

spring

of

Kheer

Bhawani

at

the

mouth

of

Sind

Valley

in

Kashmir

is

considered

one

of

their

most

important

and

sacred

places

Their

branch

of

Shiva

worship

is

known

as

Kashmir

Saivism

The

primary

tenet

of

Kashmir

Shaivism

is

that

the

individual

soul

is

one

with

the

universal

spirit

and

each

person

has

to

experience

and

discover

this

for

themselves

Kashmir

has

also

been

a

land

of

Sun

worship

with

shrines

such

as

Martand

Sun

Temple

established

by

Lalitaditya

Muktapida

Sun

worship

is

believed

to

have

been

brought

into

Kashmir

by

Kushan

kings

from

Iran

Lalitadityas

predecessor

Ranaditya

is

said

to

have

built

the

first

sun

temple

Singing

is

also

integral

part

of

Kashmiri

Pandit

religious

ceremonies

This

style

of

choral

singing

is

called

Wanvun

Culture

A

Kashmiri

pandit

woman

photograph

by

Fred

Bremner

circa

Dress

The

Dejihor

is

worn

by

Kashmiri

Pandit

brides

a

day

before

the

wedding

in

a

ceremony

called

the

Devgoan

It

is

suspended

with

a

red

thread

from

a

piercing

in

the

upper

ear

cartilage

Vinayak

Razdan

states

that

The

Dejihor

is

hexagram

shaped

which

traditionally

in

the

Tantras

is

a

symbol

of

the

union

of

Shiva

and

Shakti

Kshemendra

s

detailed

records

from

the

eleventh

century

describe

many

items

of

which

the

precise

nature

is

unknown

It

is

clear

that

tunics

known

as

kanchuka

were

worn

longsleeved

by

men

and

in

both

long

and

halfsleeved

versions

by

women

Caps

were

worn

as

well

as

a

type

of

turban

referred

to

as

a

shirahshata

while

footwear

consisted

of

leather

shoes

and

boots

worn

with

socks

Some

items

were

elaborate

such

as

the

peacock

shoes

known

as

mayuropanah

worn

by

followers

of

fashion

and

steelsoled

shoes

adorned

with

floral

designs

lubricated

internally

with

beeswax

There

are

many

references

to

the

wearing

of

jewellery

by

both

sexes

but

a

significant

omission

from

them

is

any

record

of

the

dejihor

worn

on

the

ear

by

women

today

as

a

symbol

of

their

being

married

Kaw

has

speculated

that

this

item

of

jewellery

may

not

have

existed

at

the

time

The

texts

also

refer

to

both

sexes

using

cosmetics

and

to

the

women

adopting

elaborate

hairstyles

Men

too

might

adopt

stylish

arrangements

and

wear

flowers

in

their

hair

if

they

had

the

financial

means

to

do

so

Music

Henzae

is

an

ancient

traditional

form

of

singing

practiced

by

Kashmiri

Pandits

at

their

festivals

It

appears

to

have

archaic

features

that

suggest

it

is

the

oldest

form

of

Kashmiri

folk

singing

Pilgrimage

sites

Mount

Harmukh

Harmukh

is

traditionally

revered

by

Kashmiri

Pandits

and

in

there

was

an

attempt

by

them

to

revive

pilgrimages

to

the

site

The

Mata

Khirbhawani

temple

shrine

in

Srinagar

considered

one

of

the

holiest

Hindu

shrines

saw

the

largest

gathering

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

in

the

Kashmir

valley

in

The

shrine

is

located

in

Tullamulla

village

km

from

Srinagar

in

Ganderbal

district

Some

holy

sites

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

include

the

Martand

Sun

Temple

at

Mattan

Mahakali

shrine

in

Srinagar

on

the

banks

of

vitasta

above

all

the

Amarnath

cave

shrine

the

pilgrimage

to

which

is

conducted

during

shravan

purnima

Sharda

Peeth

Sharada

Peeth

was

an

important

learning

seat

of

Kashmiri

Hindus

It

is

located

around

km

from

Muzaffarabad

on

the

banks

of

the

river

Neelum

also

called

Krishenganga

on

the

Indian

side

of

LoC

Sharda

at

an

altitude

of

meters

is

a

breathtaking

green

spot

with

numerous

springs

and

hillsides

Shardi

and

Nardi

are

two

peaks

overlooking

the

valley

named

after

the

legendary

princesses

Sharda

and

Narda

The

old

script

of

Kashmiri

language

Sharada

has

derived

its

name

from

this

place

The

ruins

of

an

ancient

buddhist

monastery

and

fort

are

located

here

Festivals

See

also

Kashmiri

Pandit

Festivals

The

religious

festivals

of

the

Brahmins

of

Kashmir

have

mostly

Vedic

roots

with

significant

Buddhist

influence

and

some

Zoroastrian

influence

as

well

The

Kashmiri

Pandits

festivals

include

Shivratri

or

Herath

in

the

Kashmiri

language

which

is

one

of

the

major

festivals

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

Navreh

or

the

Kashmiri

lunar

new

year

is

also

an

important

Pandit

festival

See

also

List

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

Kashmir

Shaivism

philosophy

Dardic

people

Hari

Parbat

List

of

Jammu

and

Kashmir

related

articles

Kashmir

The

Pandit

question

Al

Jazeera

August

Retrieved

January

One

of

the

chief

causes

of

the

ambiguity

is

because

the

numbers

of

Pandits

in

the

valley

in

can

only

be

adduced

from

the

census

of

the

last

time

the

Pandits

were

counted

and

listed

as

distinct

from

the

category

of

Kashmiri

Hindus

and

that

census

listed

a

little

fewer

than

Pandits

in

the

valley

It

is

from

this

baseline

that

demographers

have

sought

to

work

out

the

number

of

Kashmir

Pandits

in

the

valley

in

Using

the

rough

measure

of

the

average

decennial

growth

rate

in

the

state

as

a

whole

available

through

the

censuses

Duchinsky

Haley

September

Survival

is

now

our

Politics

Kashmiri

Hindu

community

identity

and

the

Politics

of

Homeland

wwwacademiaedu

a

b

c

Lyon

Peter

Conflict

between

India

Pakistan

An

Encyclopedia

p

ISBN

a

b

Essa

Assad

August

Kashmiri

Pandits

Why

we

never

fled

Kashmir

aljazeeracom

Retrieved

August

Kashmir

and

Its

People

Studies

in

the

Evolution

of

Kashmiri

Society

p

a

b

Siddhartha

Gigoo

Varad

Sharma

A

Long

Dream

of

Home

The

persecution

exile

and

exodus

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

Bloomsbury

Publishing

Śaśiśekhara

Toshakhānī

Kulbhushan

Cultural

Heritage

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

Pentagon

Press

p

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Prithivi

Nath

Kaul

Culture

and

political

history

of

Kashmir

Volume

MD

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Pvt

Ltd

pp

ISBN

Kaw

M

K

Kashmir

and

its

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in

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of

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Volume

of

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series

Culture

and

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of

Kashmir

APH

Publishing

p

ISBN

Kaw

M

K

Kashmir

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its

people

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in

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evolution

of

Kashmiri

society

APH

Publishing

p

ISBN

Retrieved

August

Stein

Mark

Aurel

Kalhanas

Rajatarangini

a

chronicle

of

the

kings

of

Kasmir

Volume

Reprinted

ed

Motilal

Banarsidass

pp

ISBN

Retrieved

July

a

b

Hasan

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Kashmir

Under

the

Sultans

Reprinted

ed

Delhi

Aakar

Books

pp

ISBN

Retrieved

July

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Mohibbul

Kashmir

Under

the

Sultans

Reprinted

ed

Delhi

Aakar

Books

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ISBN

Retrieved

July

a

b

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Mohibbul

Kashmir

Under

the

Sultans

Reprinted

ed

Delhi

Aakar

Books

p

ISBN

Retrieved

July

Davidson

Ronald

M

Indian

Esoteric

Buddhism

A

Social

History

of

the

Tantric

Movement

Reprinted

for

SE

Asia

sale

only

ed

New

York

Columbia

University

Press

pp

ISBN

Retrieved

July

Hasan

Mohibbul

Kashmir

Under

the

Sultans

Reprinted

ed

Delhi

Aakar

Books

pp

ISBN

Retrieved

July

Hasan

Mohibbul

Kashmir

Under

the

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Reprinted

ed

Delhi

Aakar

Books

pp

ISBN

Retrieved

July

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KashmirHistory

People

Sarup

Sons

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ISBN

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July

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Kashmir

Its

People

Studies

in

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evolution

of

Kashmiri

society

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Publishing

House

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ISBN

Mohan

Lalit

July

Patiala

doctor

pens

book

on

Kashmiri

Pandits

Tribune

India

Retrieved

April

a

b

Zutshi

Languages

of

Belonging

p

Quote

Since

a

majority

of

the

landlords

were

Hindu

the

land

reforms

of

led

to

a

mass

exodus

of

Hindus

from

the

state

The

unsettled

nature

of

Kashmirs

accession

to

India

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with

the

threat

of

economic

and

social

decline

in

the

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of

the

land

reforms

led

to

increasing

insecurity

among

the

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in

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and

among

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per

cent

of

whom

had

emigrated

from

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by

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July

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land

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on

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Pandits

remain

refugees

in

their

own

nation

Rediffcom

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News

Rediffcom

Retrieved

India

Bureau

of

Democracy

Human

Rights

and

Labor

US

Department

of

State

March

Retrieved

July

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Identity

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Kashmir

and

Ladakh

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Distributors

p

Ajit

Chak

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storm

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Gigoo

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Ugly

Kashmiri

Cameos

in

exile

Senate

Joint

Resolution

OREGON

LEGISLATIVE

Regular

Session

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May

at

the

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Pandits

killed

by

militants

since

The

Hindu

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we

never

fled

Kashmir

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The

forgotten

conflict

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Jazeera

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Retrieved

GreaterKashmircom

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June

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since

KPSS

Lastupdate

Mon

Jun

GMT

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Archana

April

The

tragedy

of

Kashmiri

Pandits

Part

IV

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July

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Pandit

family

returned

to

Valley

in

years

JK

govt

to

SC

When

will

we

finally

return

home

ask

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negotiate

for

peace

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Indian

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May

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September

Pandits

to

float

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The

Hindustan

Times

January

Archived

from

the

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on

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jobs

and

transit

accommodations

in

the

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for

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of

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migrants

pibnicin

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April

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of

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pibnicin

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Rose

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Central

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April

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MTV

VJ

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of

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on

the

Fox

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Network

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occasionally

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Outnumbered

on

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Fox

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Channel

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life

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Politics

Personal

life

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also

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links

Early

life

Lisa

Kennedy

Montgomery

was

born

in

Indianapolis

Indiana

and

raised

in

Lake

Oswego

Oregon

an

affluent

suburb

outside

of

Portland

She

has

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degree

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several

years

as

a

VJ

at

MTV

As

Kennedy

Montgomery

started

at

MTV

hosting

the

latenight

alternative

rock

show

Minutes

As

the

grungemusic

movement

grew

she

hosted

Alternative

Nation

from

Montgomery

appeared

as

a

panelist

on

the

revival

of

Hollywood

Squares

In

Montgomery

completed

her

book

Hey

Ladies

Tales

and

Tips

for

Curious

Girls

in

which

she

incorporated

a

multitude

of

personal

experiences

That

same

year

she

moved

to

Seattle

to

host

The

Buzz

on

KQBZ

radio

the

show

was

a

mix

of

news

local

issues

and

comedy

Montgomery

left

Seattle

in

to

cohost

a

morning

radio

show

with

Ahmet

Zappa

on

the

Comedy

World

Radio

Network

The

Future

With

Ahmet

Kennedy

a

similar

mix

of

current

events

and

comedy

She

later

cohosted

a

morning

show

with

Malibu

Dan

The

Big

House

Starting

June

Montgomery

hosted

Game

Show

Network

s

Friend

or

Foe

which

ran

for

two

seasons

On

April

she

guesthosted

the

GSN

show

WinTuition

She

also

hosted

GSNs

Who

Wants

to

Be

Governor

of

California

a

televised

debate

among

fringe

candidates

in

the

California

gubernatorial

recall

election

such

as

actors

Gary

Coleman

and

Mary

Carey

As

of

September

Montgomery

appeared

as

an

occasional

panelist

on

s

Best

Week

Ever

and

MSNBC

s

Scarborough

Country

In

October

she

became

host

of

Fox

Reality

s

Reality

Remix

until

that

series

ended

in

June

In

December

she

guesthosted

the

evening

show

several

times

on

Los

Angeles

talkradio

station

KFI

before

being

hired

by

the

station

for

a

regular

show

on

Sunday

afternoons

In

April

she

joined

Bryan

Suits

as

cohost

of

the

Kennedy

Suits

Show

at

that

station

through

September

She

hosted

Music

in

the

Mornings

on

KYSR

in

Los

Angeles

from

until

March

On

January

she

started

appearing

as

Anthony

Sullivan

s

assistant

on

PitchMen

looking

for

new

inventions

to

promote

in

infomercials

Kennedy

joined

Fox

Business

Network

as

a

contributor

in

She

cohosted

The

Independents

a

currentevents

and

political

discussion

show

from

its

debut

on

December

The

show

was

cancelled

in

January

but

she

continued

as

host

of

her

own

program

Kennedy

She

is

also

a

contributor

to

Reasoncom

and

Reasontv

and

occasionally

serves

as

guest

host

for

Bill

Carroll

John

and

Ken

and

Tim

Conway

Jr

on

KFI

She

was

a

correspondent

on

the

Fox

Business

talk

show

Stossel

and

made

occasional

appearances

as

a

panelist

and

guest

host

on

Fox

News

Red

Eye

She

has

also

made

appearances

on

other

Fox

chat

shows

such

as

Outnumbered

and

The

Five

Politics

Montgomery

is

a

libertarian

and

a

registered

Republican

She

has

a

pink

Republican

elephant

tattooed

on

her

upper

left

thigh

She

is

a

supporter

of

samesex

marriage

along

with

privatized

Social

Security

She

opposes

the

war

on

drugs

and

bureaucratic

regulation

She

is

critical

of

neoconservatism

When

Montgomery

joined

MTV

in

she

said

I

didnt

dare

out

myself

as

a

conservative

in

her

early

months

there

At

MTVs

Rock

n

Roll

Inaugural

Ball

for

Bill

Clinton

she

chanted

Nixon

now

Nixon

now

whenever

the

Clintons

went

on

stage

Along

with

being

a

fan

of

Richard

Nixon

she

supported

Dan

Quayle

and

Bob

Dole

She

was

also

a

speaker

at

the

Republican

National

Convention

She

later

abandoned

conservatism

saying

Social

conservatism

was

really

bringing

me

down

and

I

realized

as

time

went

on

that

I

wasnt

a

Bush

conservative

I

was

really

a

libertarian

She

was

first

introduced

to

libertarianism

when

Kurt

Loder

suggested

she

read

Ayn

Rand

s

Introduction

to

Objectivist

Epistemology

She

actively

supported

Gary

Johnson

in

both

the

and

elections

In

March

Reason

published

an

article

by

Kennedy

claiming

atheism

is

as

much

a

religion

as

are

theistic

religions

Personal

life

Kennedy

is

married

to

former

professional

snowboarder

Dave

Lee

and

they

have

two

daughters

Kennedy

also

dated

frontman

and

guitarist

John

Rzeznik

from

the

band

Goo

Goo

Dolls

The

song

Name

was

written

about

her

In

September

during

an

appearance

on

Red

Eye

Montgomery

said

she

had

been

diagnosed

with

celiac

disease

leading

her

to

change

to

a

more

meatbased

diet

She

is

half

Romanian

and

half

Scottish

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also

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of

people

diagnosed

with

celiac

disease

Name

a

song

written

about

Kennedy

Books

Hey

Ladies

Tales

and

Tips

for

Curious

Girls

New

York

Doubleday

The

Kennedy

Chronicles

The

Golden

Age

of

MTV

through

RoseColored

Glasses

New

York

Thomas

Dunne

Books

St

Martins

Press

References

Fernandez

Maria

Elena

July

I

had

such

a

warped

selfimage

MTV

VJ

Kennedy

dishes

on

naughty

NBC

News

Archived

from

the

original

on

January

Retrieved

December

a

b

Welch

Matt

December

Kennedy

Matt

Welch

Kmele

Foster

to

Launch

New

Nightly

Fox

Business

Show

Called

The

Independents

Reason

Clark

Taylor

November

The

Veejay

Willamette

Week

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Anchors

Reporters

Fox

Business

Network

Retrieved

February

MTV

turns

MTV

VJs

Where

are

they

now

Daily

News

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York

City

Guest

Host

on

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KFI

Retrieved

February

Kennedy

March

A

Farewell

from

Kennedy

KYSRFM

Steinberg

Brian

January

Fox

Business

to

Replace

The

Independents

With

Kennedy

Variety

Chariton

Jordan

January

Fox

Business

Canceling

The

Independents

Hosted

by

Kennedy

The

Wrap

a

b

Kennedy

Libertarian

TheAdvocatescom

Archived

from

the

original

on

February

Grove

Lloyd

December

Lisa

Kennedy

Montgomery

on

Her

Path

From

MTV

to

Fox

Business

The

Daily

Beast

Why

Youre

Wrong

About

the

Right

Behind

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Myths

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Surprising

Truth

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Wrong

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Surprising

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on

her

new

libertarian

news

show

and

hookerintraining

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Cyrus

Entertainment

Weekly

Schwab

Nikki

August

MTV

VJ

Kennedy

recalls

being

an

altrock

Republican

RedAlertPoliticscom

McNamara

Mary

October

Back

as

host

but

its

a

whole

new

reality

The

New

York

Times

Cavanaugh

Tim

Oct

Reasontv

Former

MTV

VJ

and

Radio

Host

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on

Medical

Marijuana

The

Politics

of

Alt

Rock

and

How

She

Went

From

Conservative

to

Libertarian

Reason

MTV

Libertarians

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Kurt

Loder

Talk

Politics

the

Golden

Age

of

MTV

Aug

via

YouTube

Chamberlin

Brett

September

Yesterdays

NYU

Libertarian

Event

Was

Sort

Of

Insane

NYULocalcom

Kennedy

March

Atheism

Is

a

Religion

Reason

Every

Third

ThursdaySecretStashSnowboardbySignal

Snowboards

YouTube

April

Retrieved

February

Im

A

Triathlete

Former

MTV

VJ

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Triathloncompetitorcom

Retrieved

ManguWard

Katherine

Interview

Kennedy

Reason

Retrieved

September

Kennedy

Interviews

Jack

White

YouTube

iHeartRadio

Retrieved

August

External

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on

Twitter

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Kirtanananda

Swami

Born

September

Peekskill

New

York

USA

Died

October

aged

Thane

India

Kirtanananda

Swami

also

known

as

Swami

Bhaktipada

September

October

was

the

highly

controversial

charismatic

Hare

Krishna

guru

and

cofounder

of

the

New

Vrindaban

Hare

Krishna

community

in

Marshall

County

West

Virginia

where

he

served

as

spiritual

leader

for

years

from

until

Contents

Early

life

As

Kirtanananda

The

New

Vrindaban

community

Palace

of

Gold

Interfaith

era

Assault

and

ensuing

expulsion

from

ISKCON

Criminal

conviction

and

imprisonment

After

imprisonment

Death

Bibliography

External

links

Early

life

Kirtanananda

was

born

Keith

Gordon

Ham

in

Peekskill

New

York

in

the

son

of

a

Conservative

Baptist

minister

Keith

Ham

inherited

his

fathers

missionary

spirit

and

attempted

to

convert

classmates

to

his

familys

faith

Despite

an

acute

case

of

poliomyelitis

which

he

contracted

around

his

birthday

he

graduated

with

honors

from

high

school

in

He

received

a

Bachelor

of

Arts

in

History

from

Maryville

College

in

Maryville

Tennessee

on

May

and

graduated

magna

cum

laude

first

in

his

class

of

He

received

a

Woodrow

Wilson

fellowship

to

study

American

history

at

the

University

of

North

Carolina

at

Chapel

Hill

where

he

remained

for

three

years

There

he

met

Howard

Morton

Wheeler

an

undergraduate

English

major

from

Mobile

Alabama

who

became

his

lover

and

lifelong

friend

Later

Kirtanananda

acknowledged

that

before

becoming

a

Hare

Krishna

he

had

had

a

homosexual

relationship

with

Wheeler

for

many

years

which

was

documented

in

the

film

Holy

Cow

Swami

a

documentary

by

Jacob

Young

The

two

resigned

from

the

university

on

February

and

left

Chapel

Hill

after

being

threatened

with

an

investigation

over

a

sex

scandal

and

moved

to

New

York

City

Ham

promoted

LSD

use

and

became

an

LSD

guru

He

worked

as

an

unemployment

claims

reviewer

He

enrolled

at

Columbia

University

in

where

he

received

a

Waddell

fellowship

to

study

religious

history

with

Whitney

Cross

but

he

quit

academic

life

after

several

years

when

he

and

Wheeler

travelled

to

India

in

October

in

search

of

a

guru

Unsuccessful

they

returned

to

New

York

after

six

months

As

Kirtanananda

Swami

Prabhupada

and

Kirtanananda

undated

In

June

after

returning

from

India

Ham

met

the

Bengali

Gaudiya

Vaishnava

guru

AC

Bhaktivedanta

Swami

Prabhupada

then

known

simply

as

Swamiji

to

his

disciples

the

founderacharya

of

the

International

Society

for

Krishna

Consciousness

ISKCON

more

popularly

known

in

the

West

as

the

Hare

Krishnas

After

attending

Bhagavadgita

classes

at

the

modest

storefront

temple

at

Second

Avenue

in

the

Lower

East

Side

of

Manhattan

Ham

accepted

Swamiji

as

his

spiritual

master

receiving

initiation

as

Kirtanananda

Dasa

the

servant

of

one

who

takes

pleasure

in

kirtan

on

September

Swamiji

sometimes

called

him

Kitchenananda

because

of

his

cooking

expertise

Howard

Wheeler

was

initiated

two

weeks

earlier

on

September

and

received

the

name

Hayagriva

Dasa

Kirtanananda

was

among

the

first

of

Swamijis

western

disciples

to

shave

his

head

apart

from

the

sikha

don

robes

traditional

Bengali

Vaishnava

clothing

consists

of

dhoti

and

kurta

and

move

into

the

temple

In

March

on

the

order

of

Swamiji

Kirtanananda

and

Janus

Dambergs

Janardana

Dasa

a

Frenchspeaking

university

student

established

the

Montreal

Hare

Krishna

temple

On

August

while

travelling

with

Swamiji

in

India

Kirtanananda

Dasa

became

Prabhupadas

first

disciple

to

be

initiated

into

the

Vaishnava

order

of

renunciation

sannyasa

a

lifelong

vow

of

celibacy

in

mind

word

and

body

and

received

the

name

Kirtanananda

Swami

Within

weeks

however

he

returned

to

New

York

City

against

Prabhupadas

wishes

and

attempted

to

add

esoteric

cultural

elements

of

Christianity

to

Prabhupadas

devotional

bhakti

system

Other

disciples

of

Prabhupada

saw

this

as

a

takeover

attempt

In

letters

from

India

Prabhupada

soundly

chastised

him

and

banned

him

from

preaching

in

ISKCON

temples

The

New

Vrindaban

community

Kirtanananda

Vamanadev

Hrishikesh

Hayagriva

and

Pradyumna

at

New

Vrindaban

late

summer

Kirtanananda

moved

in

with

Wheeler

by

then

known

as

Hayagriva

Dasa

who

was

teaching

English

at

a

community

college

in

Wilkes

Barre

Pennsylvania

In

the

San

Francisco

Oracle

an

underground

newspaper

Kirtanananda

saw

a

letter

from

Richard

Rose

Jr

who

wanted

to

form

an

ashram

on

his

land

in

Marshall

County

West

Virginia

The

conception

is

one

of

a

nonprofit

noninterfering

nondenominational

retreat

or

refuge

where

philosophers

might

come

to

work

communally

together

or

independently

where

a

library

and

other

facilities

might

be

developed

On

a

weekend

free

of

classes

March

Kirtanananda

and

Hayagriva

visited

the

two

properties

owned

by

Rose

After

Hayagriva

returned

to

Wilkes

Barre

Kirtanananda

stayed

on

in

Roses

backwoods

farmhouse

In

July

after

a

few

months

of

Kirtananandas

living

in

isolation

he

and

Hayagriva

visited

Prabhupada

in

Montreal

Prabhupada

forgave

his

renegade

disciples

in

Montreal

with

a

garland

of

roses

and

a

shower

of

tears

When

the

pair

returned

to

West

Virginia

Richard

Rose

Jr

and

his

wife

Phyllis

gave

Hayagriva

a

lease

on

the

property

for

with

an

option

to

purchase

for

when

the

lease

expired

Hayagriva

put

down

a

deposit

Kirtanananda

Swami

and

New

Vrindaban

Community

president

Kuladri

das

c

Prabhupada

established

the

purpose

and

guided

the

development

of

the

community

in

dozens

of

letters

and

four

personal

visits

and

New

Vrindaban

would

fulfill

four

major

functions

for

ISKCON

establish

and

promote

the

simple

agrarian

Krishna

conscious

lifestyle

including

cow

protection

establish

a

place

of

pilgrimage

in

the

West

by

building

seven

temples

on

seven

hills

train

up

a

class

of

brahmin

teachers

by

training

boys

at

the

gurukula

school

of

the

guru

and

establish

a

society

based

on

varnashramdharma

Kirtanananda

eventually

established

himself

as

leader

and

sole

authority

over

the

community

In

New

Vrindaban

publications

he

was

honored

as

Founder

Acharya

of

New

Vrindaban

in

imitation

of

Prabhupadas

title

of

FounderAcharya

of

ISKCON

Over

time

the

community

expanded

devotees

from

other

ISKCON

centers

moved

in

and

cows

and

land

were

acquired

until

New

Vrindaban

properties

consisted

of

nearly

acres

New

Vrindaban

became

a

favorite

ISKCON

place

of

pilgrimage

and

many

ISKCON

devotees

attended

the

annual

Krishna

Janmashtami

festivals

For

some

Kirtananandas

previous

offenses

were

forgiven

Many

devotees

admired

him

for

his

austere

lifestyle

for

a

time

he

lived

in

an

abandoned

chicken

coop

his

preaching

skills

and

devotion

to

the

presiding

deities

of

New

Vrindaban

Sri

Sri

Radha

Vrindaban

Chandra

For

other

devotees

who

had

challenged

him

and

thereby

encountered

his

wrath

he

was

a

source

of

fear

Palace

of

Gold

Late

in

Kirtanananda

and

sculptorarchitect

Bhagavatananda

Dasa

decided

to

build

a

home

for

Prabhupada

In

time

the

plans

for

the

house

developed

into

an

ornate

memorial

shrine

of

marble

gold

and

carved

teakwood

dedicated

posthumously

during

Labor

Day

weekend

on

Sunday

September

The

completion

of

the

Palace

of

Gold

catapulted

New

Vrindaban

into

mainstream

respectability

as

tens

and

eventually

hundreds

of

thousands

of

tourists

began

visiting

the

Palace

each

year

A

Land

of

Krishna

theme

park

and

a

granite

Temple

of

Understanding

in

classical

South

Indian

style

were

designed

to

make

New

Vrindaban

a

Spiritual

Disneyland

The

groundbreaking

ceremony

of

the

proposed

temple

on

May

was

attended

by

dozens

of

dignitaries

including

a

United

States

congressman

from

West

Virginia

One

publication

called

it

the

most

significant

and

memorable

day

in

the

history

of

New

Vrindaban

Upon

Prabhupadas

death

disappearance

on

November

Kirtanananda

and

ten

other

highranking

ISKCON

leaders

assumed

the

position

of

initiating

gurus

to

succeed

him

In

March

he

accepted

the

honorific

title

Bhaktipada

Interfaith

era

In

Kirtanananda

began

his

socalled

interfaith

experiment

and

the

community

became

known

as

the

New

Vrindaban

City

of

God

He

attempted

to

deIndianize

Krishna

Consciousness

to

help

make

it

more

accessible

to

westerners

just

as

he

had

done

previously

in

Devotees

wore

Franciscan

style

robes

instead

of

dhotis

and

saris

they

chanted

in

English

with

western

instruments

such

as

the

pipe

organ

and

accordions

instead

of

chanting

in

Sanskrit

and

Bengali

with

mridanga

drums

and

cymbals

male

devotees

grew

hair

and

beards

instead

of

shaving

their

heads

and

faces

female

devotees

were

awarded

the

sannyasini

order

and

encouraged

to

preach

independently

japa

was

practiced

silently

and

an

interfaith

community

was

attempted

Assault

and

ensuing

expulsion

from

ISKCON

Kirtanananda

Swami

under

house

arrest

On

October

during

a

New

Vrindaban

bricklaying

marathon

a

crazed

and

distraught

devotee

bludgeoned

Kirtanananda

on

the

head

with

a

heavy

steel

tamping

tool

Kirtanananda

was

critically

injured

and

remained

in

a

coma

for

ten

days

Gradually

he

recovered

most

of

his

faculties

although

devotees

who

knew

him

well

said

that

his

personality

had

changed

Some

close

associates

began

leaving

the

community

On

March

during

their

annual

meeting

at

Mayapur

India

the

ISKCON

Governing

Body

Commission

expelled

Kirtanananda

from

the

society

for

various

deviations

They

claimed

he

had

defied

ISKCON

policies

and

had

claimed

to

be

the

sole

spiritual

heir

to

Prabhupadas

movement

Thirteen

members

voted

for

the

resolution

two

abstained

and

one

member

Bhakti

Tirtha

Swami

voted

against

the

resolution

Kirtanananda

then

established

his

own

organization

The

Eternal

Order

of

the

League

of

Devotees

Worldwide

taking

several

properties

with

him

By

New

Vrindaban

had

satellite

centers

in

the

United

States

and

Canada

including

New

Vrindaban

New

Vrindaban

was

excommunicated

from

ISKCON

the

same

year

Criminal

conviction

and

imprisonment

In

the

US

federal

government

indicted

Kirtanananda

on

five

counts

of

racketeering

six

counts

of

mail

fraud

and

conspiracy

to

murder

two

of

his

opponents

in

the

Hare

Krishna

movement

Stephen

Bryant

and

Charles

St

Denis

The

government

claimed

that

he

had

illegally

amassed

a

profit

of

more

than

million

over

four

years

It

also

charged

that

he

ordered

the

killings

because

the

victims

had

threatened

to

reveal

his

sexual

abuse

of

minors

On

March

Kirtanananda

was

convicted

on

nine

of

the

charges

the

jury

failed

to

reach

a

verdict

on

the

murder

charges

but

the

Court

of

Appeals

convinced

by

the

expert

arguments

of

defense

attorney

Alan

Morton

Dershowitz

a

criminal

law

professor

at

Harvard

University

who

represented

such

celebrated

and

wealthy

clients

as

Claus

von

Bülow

Mike

Tyson

and

O

J

Simpson

threw

out

the

convictions

saying

that

child

molestation

evidence

had

unfairly

prejudiced

the

jury

against

Kirtanananda

who

was

not

charged

with

those

crimes

On

August

he

was

released

from

house

arrest

in

a

rented

apartment

in

the

Warwood

neighborhood

of

Wheeling

where

he

had

lived

for

nearly

two

years

and

returned

triumphantly

to

New

Vrindaban

Kirtanananda

lost

his

iron

grip

on

the

community

after

the

September

Winnebago

Incident

during

which

he

was

accidentally

discovered

in

a

compromising

position

with

a

young

male

Malaysian

disciple

in

the

back

of

a

Winnebago

van

and

the

community

split

into

two

camps

those

who

still

supported

Kirtanananda

and

those

who

challenged

his

leadership

During

this

time

he

retired

to

his

rural

retreat

at

Silent

Mountain

near

Littleton

West

Virginia

The

challengers

eventually

ousted

Kirtanananda

and

his

supporters

completely

and

ended

the

interfaith

era

in

July

by

returning

the

temple

worship

services

to

the

standard

Indian

style

advocated

by

Swami

Prabhupada

and

practiced

throughout

ISKCON

Most

of

Kirtananandas

followers

left

New

Vrindaban

and

moved

to

the

Radha

Muralidhar

Temple

in

New

York

City

which

remained

under

Kirtananandas

control

New

Vrindaban

returned

to

ISKCON

in

In

before

Kirtananandas

retrial

was

completed

he

pleaded

guilty

to

one

count

of

racketeering

mail

fraud

He

was

sentenced

to

years

in

prison

but

was

released

on

June

On

September

the

ISKCON

Child

Protection

Office

concluded

a

investigation

and

determined

that

Kirtanananda

had

molested

two

boys

He

was

prohibited

from

visiting

any

ISKCON

properties

for

five

years

and

offered

conditions

for

reinstatement

within

ISKCON

He

must

contribute

at

least

to

an

organization

dedicated

to

serving

Vaishnava

youth

such

as

Children

of

Krishna

the

Association

for

the

Protection

of

Vaishnava

Children

or

a

gurukula

approved

by

the

APVC

He

must

write

apology

letters

to

all

the

victims

described

in

this

letter

In

these

letters

he

must

fully

acknowledge

his

transgressions

of

child

abuse

and

he

must

take

full

responsibility

for

those

actions

Also

he

must

express

appropriate

remorse

and

offer

to

make

amends

to

the

victims

These

letters

should

be

sent

to

the

APVC

not

directly

to

the

victims

He

must

undergo

a

psychological

evaluation

by

a

mental

health

professional

preapproved

by

the

APVC

and

he

must

comply

with

recommendations

for

ongoing

therapy

described

in

the

evaluation

report

and

by

the

APVC

He

must

fully

comply

with

all

governmental

investigations

into

misconduct

on

his

part

Kirtanananda

never

satisfied

any

of

these

conditions

After

imprisonment

Kirtanananda

Swami

in

New

York

City

March

For

four

years

after

his

release

from

prison

Kirtanananda

now

confined

to

a

wheelchair

resided

at

the

Radha

Murlidhara

Temple

at

First

Avenue

in

New

York

City

which

was

purchased

in

for

and

maintained

by

a

small

number

of

disciples

and

followers

although

the

temple

board

later

attempted

to

evict

him

On

March

Kirtanananda

left

the

United

States

for

India

where

he

expected

to

remain

for

the

rest

of

his

life

There

is

no

sense

in

staying

where

Im

not

wanted

he

explained

referring

to

the

desertions

through

the

years

by

most

of

his

American

disciples

and

to

the

attempts

to

evict

him

from

the

building

At

the

time

of

his

death

Kirtanananda

still

had

a

significant

number

of

loyal

disciples

in

India

and

Pakistan

who

worshiped

him

as

guru

and

published

his

last

books

He

continued

preaching

a

message

of

interfaith

that

the

God

of

the

Christians

Jews

Death

Kirtanananda

died

on

October

at

a

hospital

in

Thane

near

Mumbai

India

aged

His

brother

Gerald

Ham

reported

the

cause

of

death

to

be

kidney

failure

Bibliography

Part

of

a

series

on

Vaishnavism

Supreme

deity

Important

deities

Holy

scriptures

Sampradayas

Philosophersacharyas

Related

traditions

Hinduism

portal

v

t

e

Kirtanananda

Swami

authored

two

dozen

published

books

some

of

which

were

translated

and

published

in

Gujarati

German

French

and

Spanish

editions

Some

books

attributed

to

him

and

published

in

his

name

were

actually

written

by

volunteer

ghostwriters

Books

by

Kirtanananda

Swami

Bhaktipada

The

Song

of

God

A

Summary

Study

of

Bhagavadgita

As

It

Is

Christ

and

Krishna

The

Path

of

Pure

Devotion

Lamour

de

Dieu

Le

Christianisme

et

La

Tradition

Bhakti

French

edition

Eternal

Love

Conversations

with

the

Lord

in

the

Heart

based

on

Thomas

à

Kempis

Imitation

of

Christ

The

Song

of

God

A

Summary

Study

of

Bhagavadgita

As

It

Is

c

Gujarati

edition

On

His

Order

The

Illustrated

Ramayana

Lila

in

the

Land

of

Illusion

based

on

Lewis

Carroll

s

Alice

in

Wonderland

Bhaktipada

Bullets

compiled

by

Devamrita

Swami

A

Devotees

Journey

to

the

City

of

God

based

on

John

Bunyan

s

Pilgrims

Progress

Joy

of

No

Sex

Excerpts

from

The

Bhaktipada

Psalms

Le

pur

amour

de

Dieu

Christ

Krishna

French

edition

One

God

The

Essence

of

All

Religions

Indian

publication

Heart

of

the

Gita

Always

Think

of

Me

How

To

Say

No

To

Drugs

Spiritual

Warfare

How

to

Gain

Victory

in

the

Struggle

for

Spiritual

Perfection

a

sequel

to

Eternal

Love

How

to

Love

God

based

on

Saint

Francis

de

Sales

Treatise

on

the

Love

of

God

Sense

Grataholics

Anonymous

A

Twelve

Step

Meeting

Suggested

Sharing

Format

c

On

Becoming

Servant

of

The

Servant

undated

Indian

publication

Divine

Conversation

Indian

publication

The

Answer

to

Every

Problem

Krishna

Consciousness

Indian

publication

A

Devotees

Handbook

for

Pure

Devotion

Indian

publication

Humbler

than

a

Blade

of

Grass

Indian

publication

Articles

and

poems

by

and

interviews

with

Kirtanananda

Swami

published

in

Back

to

Godhead

magazine

Vol

No

untitled

poem

no

Vol

No

untitled

poem

no

Vol

No

untitled

poem

no

Vol

No

untitled

poem

no

Vol

No

Mans

Link

to

God

Vol

No

Krishnas

Light

vs

Mayas

Night

Vol

No

Prasadam

Food

for

the

Body

Food

for

the

Soul

and

Food

for

God

Vol

No

Observing

the

Armies

on

the

Battlefield

of

Kuruksetra

Part

Vol

No

Contents

of

the

Gita

Summarized

Vol

No

KarmayogaPerfection

through

Action

Part

Sankirtana

Vol

No

Transcendental

Knowledge

Part

He

Is

Transcendental

Vol

No

KarmayogaAction

in

Krishna

Consciousness

Part

Work

in

Devotion

Vol

No

Sankhyayoga

Absorption

in

the

Supreme

Vol

No

Knowledge

of

the

Absolute

It

Is

Not

a

Cheap

Thing

Vol

No

Attaining

the

Supreme

What

Is

Brahman

Vol

No

Turning

Our

Love

Toward

Krishna

Vol

No

The

Things

Christ

Had

to

Keep

Secret

Vol

No

The

Hearts

Desire

How

can

we

find

happiness

that

is

not

purchased

with

our

pain

References

Within

ISKCON

he

is

now

known

as

Kirtanananda

das

as

he

is

regarded

as

longfallen

from

his

sannyasa

vows

of

celibacy

a

b

Margalit

Fox

October

Swami

Bhaktipada

ExHare

Krishna

Leader

Dies

at

The

New

York

Times

A

clip

of

Kirtanananda

with

the

court

transcript

in

which

he

was

asked

Back

in

the

and

early

were

you

homosexual

and

his

response

Yes

can

be

seen

here

on

YouTube

Hayagriva

Das

The

Hare

Krishna

Explosion

Palace

Press

New

Vrindaban

WV

Satsvarupa

dasa

Goswami

Srila

Prabhupadalilamrta

Vol

Bhaktivedanta

Book

Trust

Los

Angeles

CA

Letters

From

Srila

Prabhupada

Vol

The

Vaisnava

Institute

in

association

with

the

BBT

Culver

City

CA

Richard

Rose

The

San

Francisco

Oracle

December

Hayagriva

Das

Chant

Brijabasi

Spirit

November

p

Lease

available

for

viewing

at

Marshall

County

Courthouse

Moundsville

West

Virginia

Back

to

Godhead

magazine

published

three

of

his

poems

and

articles

between

and

Kuladri

Das

Vyasapuja

Homage

Shri

Vyasapuja

September

p

Government

Officials

Attend

Ceremony

Land

of

Krishna

vol

no

July

See

image

of

City

of

God

Accordion

Ensemble

at

FileNewvrindabanaccordionsjpg

This

was

Triyogi

dasa

who

had

come

to

New

Vrindaban

in

September

to

attend

the

muchpublicized

Prabhupada

Disciple

Meetings

After

the

conference

concluded

he

decided

to

stay

at

New

Vrindaban

for

a

time

His

services

at

New

Vrindaban

were

menial

he

assisted

in

the

kitchen

and

picked

up

litter

around

the

Palace

He

appeared

to

have

some

prominent

personality

dysfunctions

he

was

sometimes

observed

muttering

under

his

breath

to

himself

and

the

New

Vrindaban

residents

who

knew

him

considered

him

mentally

unstable

Triyogi

had

asked

Kirtanananda

to

initiate

him

into

the

order

of

sannyas

Kirtanananda

said

that

he

must

The

Philadelphia

Inquirer

August

Triyogi

was

visibly

upset

and

confided

in

another

New

Vrindaban

devotee

that

he

felt

he

had

to

either

kill

himself

kill

Bhaktipada

or

leave

Later

he

told

that

same

devotee

that

he

would

not

kill

anyone

he

would

simply

leave

Tulsi

das

quoting

Triyogi

cited

by

Terry

Smith

in

Krishnas

May

Investigate

New

Disciples

The

Wheeling

Intelligencer

October

pp

See

The

Perils

of

Succession

Heresies

of

Authority

and

Continuity

In

the

Hare

Krishna

Movement

Tamal

Krishna

Goswami

a

b

Lewis

James

Violence

and

New

Religious

Movements

New

York

Oxford

University

Press

p

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

Holy

Cow

Swami

a

documentary

movie

by

Jacob

Young

WVEBA

Federal

Bureau

of

Prisons

record

of

release

Official

Decision

on

the

Case

of

Kirtanananda

Das

ISKCON

Central

Office

of

Child

Protection

September

The

four

conditions

for

reinstatement

into

ISKCON

formulated

by

the

ISKCON

Child

Protection

Office

were

in

response

to

particular

crimes

against

two

boys

However

these

conditions

do

not

take

into

account

the

March

GBC

resolution

which

excommunicated

Kirtanananda

from

ISKCON

for

other

offenses

Therefore

even

if

the

conditions

imposed

by

the

Child

Protection

Office

were

satisfied

in

full

Kirtanananda

would

still

be

unwelcome

in

ISKCON

The

installation

of

Sri

Sri

Radha

Murlidhara

was

reported

in

The

City

of

God

Examiner

issue

no

January

Hare

Krishnas

clash

as

eviction

effort

divides

First

Ave

building

by

TienShun

Lee

The

Villager

New

York

July

Kirtanananda

Swami

cited

by

Henry

Doktorski

in

Kirtanananda

Swami

Leaves

US

Moves

To

India

Permanently

Brijabasi

Spirit

March

Sri

Galim

wrote

The

Illustrated

Ramayana

Rukmini

devi

dasi

wrote

Joy

of

No

Sex

and

True

Peace

wrote

Heart

of

the

Gita

Always

Think

of

Me

See

httpwwwkirtananandaswamiorgHandbookforPureDevotionpdf

External

links

Website

of

Kirtanananda

Website

of

New

Vrindaban

Community

Website

of

Palace

of

Gold

New

Vrindaban

The

Black

Sheep

of

ISKCON

Authority

control

ISNI

LCCN

VIAF

WorldCat

Identities

via

VIAF

Categories

births

deaths

American

Hare

Krishnas

People

convicted

of

racketeering

American

fraudsters

Former

International

Society

for

Krishna

Consciousness

religious

figures

Converts

to

Hinduism

People

from

Peekskill

New

York

LGBT

people

from

the

United

States

Deaths

from

kidney

failure

Diseaserelated

deaths

in

India

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American

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of

the

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criminal

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Kult roleplaying game From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Kult Cover for Kult Death is Only the Beginning Designers Gunilla Jonsson Michael Petersén Publishers Paradox Entertainment 7ème Cercle fr Publication date Third Edition 2001 2004 Genres Horror Systems Custom Kult is a contemporary horror roleplaying game originally designed by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén first published in Sweden by Äventyrsspel later Target Games in 1991 Kult is notable for its philosophical and religious depth as well as for its mature and controversial content The first English edition was published in 1993 by Metropolis Ltd In 1995 7ème Cercle fr translated the second Swedish edition into French In 2018 current licensor Helmgast released KULT Divinity Lost an edition not based on previous rulesets bringing forward the now of the setting from the 1990s to the present Contents 1 Setting 11 Entities 12 Disappearance of the Demiurge 13 Realities 2 Rules 21 Mental Balance 22 Combat 23 Magic 3 History 31 4 Controversy 5 Spinoffs 6 Notes 7 External links Setting The default backdrop of Kult is modernday reallife larger cities players taking the roles of contemporary multigenre protagonists such as private investigators and femme fatales vigilantes and drug dealers artists and journalists or secret agents and mad scientists In the game however all this and the entire world we see is an illusion held together by monotheistic belief which is unravelling to reveal a darker backdrop where nightmarish monsters lurk called reality in the game This illusion was created by the Demiurge to hold humanity prisoner and to prevent mankind from regaining the divinity it once had In the absence of this Demiurge sinister forces plot to keep us from realizing the truth or even to plunge the world into an apocalyptic war to restore humanitys ignorance and blind faith in the divine order Some symbols and creatures appearing in Kult can also be seen in other Swedish games to which the Kult authors and production team also have contributed The Mutant Chronicles universe created by Nils Gulliksson and Michael Stenmark its spinoffs share creatures such as Nepharites and Razides which appear in the game Entities The notion of an originally divine mankind being held captive by sinister forces is borrowed from gnosticism The cosmological backdrop of Kult is largely based on the Tree of life the Sephirot and the Qliphoth It is balanced with the Demiurge and his Archons on one side and Astaroth and his Death Angels on the other Each Archon or Death Angel represents a value group or an action aid organisations child abuse mafia apathy judicial systems etc over which they have great influence The Archons and Death Angels have various creatures and cults thereby the name of the game to do their bidding and promote their values Many of these are our jailers who work to maintain the Illusion Many of the adventures revolve around how these entities conflicts affect the player characters and the world around them Disappearance of the Demiurge One of the more central elements of the game is that the Demiurge has disappeared since just before the 20th century and since then Astaroth the Archons and the Death Angels have been struggling for power Many entities have vanished since and the Illusion has been weakened The game leaves a lot to the imagination of interpretive game masters regarding reasons for the Demiurges disappearance as well as the earlier mentioned divinity of mankind Realities The game concept relies on there being several realities that may appear when the Illusion shatters Metropolis the original city which interconnects with all great cities Inferno and its purgatories where humans are held captive and tortured after death and Gaia which connects to nature and natures destructive forces Rules The original system is a skillbased system utilizing 20sided dice related to the BRP system used by Äventyrsspel for their Drakar och Demoner rpgs with pointbased characters In the game a natural 1 usually is great success with added bonuses and a natural 20 means a complete failure Normal characters usually have skill ranges of 3 to 20 to succeed in a skill roll the player needs to roll equal or below his characters skill The lower the player rolls below the skill number the greater the success Extraordinary characters and inhuman entities can have skill values far above the normal range This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it February 2016 The forthcoming ruleset Divinity Lost is based on the Apocalypse World rules engine You roll two tensided dice add possible modifications and try to reach at least 10 to avoid failure or 15 to gain a complete success Mental Balance Central to the game is the aspect of Mental Balance which is a sanitygauge of sorts In the games cosmology humans can at least in theory regain their lost divine status through a game concept called Awakening in which characters with an extremely high or low the game never values positive or moral traits higher than negative or immoral ones mental balance are no longer restrained by the rules of the Illusion Effectively they escape the prison and become gods Continued play at this point is outside the focus of the game however The closer to equilibrium the character is the more he is anchored in everyday human reality and the harder it is for the character to see through the veil of The Illusion to the true reality beneath On the other hand this protects him from becoming traumatized or insane The further from this balance point zero the characters Mental Balance gets the more easily he or she will become emotionally and mentally unbalanced by shocking events A Kult character can have positive or negative mental balance affected by traumata influence from creatures or places or by advantages and disadvantages The advantages and disadvantages are drug addiction sex addiction paranoia mystic curse or similar Both an unusually high or unusually low 2525 Mental Balance will affect how normal people and animals react to the character in question The further the character strays away from the zero point the more sociopathic strange or eccentric he becomes as he sheds his human quirks and viewpoints and becomes more inhuman Characters with a very high or very low Mental Balance will start to involuntarily manifest outward physical signs of their ascent or descent they become either detached saints or Children of the Night If Mental Balance ever reaches 500500 the character Awakens and regains their true potential Combat This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2015 There are several different official rulesets for combat The second and third English edition rules use a system based on Damage Effect Factors DEF Magic Kults magic system is largely drawn on the same realworld occult belief systems as some modern magick societies Sorcerers can cast spells from one or rarely more of five different Lores Death Dream Madness Passion and Time Space Because these spells have very long casting times up to several days highly specific and exacting verbal material and somatic requirements and can only be cast inside the sorcerers consecrated temple these spells are actually more like quasireligious rituals History Kult was originally published by the company Target Games in 1991 as a Swedish roleplaying game and has later been translated into several other languages Kult has been published in Swedish German English Italian Polish Spanish and French Metropolis Ltd published the Englishlanguage game through three editions and new supplements with a new US background and a revised page design and editing led by Terry K Amthor The third English edition of Kult had two English books released in print form a players handbook named Kult Rumours in 2001 and the core rulebook subtitled Beyond The Veil printed in 2004 Both currently out of print though copies can be purchased through secondary and specialized markets The former publishers was 7ème Cercle French and Raven Distribution it Italian The license has been the property of first Target Games then Paradox Entertainment and in 2015 Cabinet Holdings Current publishers Currently Kult is licensed by Helmgast A 2016 Kickstarter campaign funded a new edition of the game entitled Kult Divinity Lost This edition uses a different rules engine than previous editions one based on Apocalypse World and its Powered by the Apocalypse rules engine It updates the setting to answer the question What would Kult had been like if it was released in 2016 instead of 1991 The game was released in 2018 In 2017 Free Leauge published Anders Fagers novel För Gudinnan for the love of goddess set in the Kult universe Controversy In Sweden Kult has been noted by the general press several times and in 1997 the Kult core rules was quoted in a motion in the Parliament of Sweden The motion was to stop taxpayer funding of youth groups that were active with roleplaying It refers to a murder in a small town in southern Sweden called Bjuv where a 15yearold was killed by two 16 and 17yearold friends who according to the legal motion were influenced by Kult Critics of roleplaying games have also have tied Kult to a 16yearold Swedish boy who committed suicide by shotgun in November 1996 The local newspaper Tønsbergs Blad in Tønsberg Norway similarly used Kult in relation to the disappearance of a boy called Andreas Hammer on July 1 1994 Andreas Hammer allegedly played Kult the week prior to his disappearance He is still missing Spinoffs Kult card game by Bryan Winter In AugustNovember 2011 Dark Horse Comics released a 4 issue mini series based on the RPG Notes Speltidningense in Swedish Kult 1st edition Book one The Lie pp 22 Kult 1st edition Book three The Truth pages 35 KULT Divinity Lost RULES Helmgast Helmgast ger ut Kult KULT DIVINITY LOST KULT Divinity Lost Horror Roleplaying Game RPG by Helmgast AB Kickstarter Kickstarter From the parliament archives in Swedish Bjornfoxtailnu Archived 20110724 at the Wayback Machine unofficial source in Swedish Aftonbladetse Archived 20041122 at the Wayback Machine in Swedish Pubtv2no Nettavisen in Norwegian Kult 1 Profile Dark Horse Comics External links Official home page Cabinet Entertainment Categories Contemporary roleplaying games Horror roleplaying games Swedish roleplaying games Roleplaying games introduced in 1991

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