Main Page

From Vanipedia

Jump to: navigation, search
Vanipedia — the essence of Vedic knowledge

The encyclopedia of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda's teachings

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Vanipedia is a dynamic, interactive encyclopedia of all of Śrīla Prabhupāda's words (vani). Vanipedia aims to explore, discover and comprehensively compile Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings from every angle of vision, and present them in accessible and easily understandable ways. There are seven petals in the whole Vanipedia project. At the moment only Vanisource, where you can read all of Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, lectures, conversations and letters, and Vaniquotes, where we are comprehensively mapping all of Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings, are populated with content. Follow these links for a short introduction to the other petals; Vanimedia, Vanictionary, Vanibooks, and Vaniversity. Vanipedia will offer a continual worldwide platform for Śrīla Prabhupāda to preach and teach the science of Krsna consciousness.

Vanipedia's vision is a collaborative endeavor and will succeed as more people come forward to participate. We have created a very easy compiling process to populate the Vaniquotes petal with thousands of quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda organized into 4 sections. Thematic, his usage of language, the different scriptures Śrīla Prabhupāda introduced us to in his Bhaktivedanta purports, and the saintly and transcendental personalities presented within his teachings. Vaniquotes is the building of an unparalleled resource of Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings for the benefit of all. As Vaniquotes is filled with more quotes, the other petals will naturally develop. Compiling in Vaniquotes is a penetrating way to study Śrīla Prabhupāda's books.

You can find out about the whole Vanipedia project here. Check out our frequently asked questions, and if you have a question of your own, want to be involved, or just want to say hi, then please contact us here.

Vaniseva - serving together we create our future

Featured pages from Vaniquotes

Vani news and views

Vaniquotes statistics - categories/pages/ quotes

As of today we have created 5,045 categories, 11,064 pages (7,224 are completed and 3,840 are in process) and there are now 67,080 quotes drawn from the following places.

  • 4,454 quotes from Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
  • 19,349 quotes from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
  • 5,771 quotes from Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta
  • 3,466 quotes from other books by Śrīla Prabhupāda
  • 16,443 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda's lectures
  • 7,357 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda's conversations
  • 10,240 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda's correspondence


Once completed we estimate that Vaniquotes will have around 5,500 categories, 108,000 pages, and somewhere between 1 to 2 million quotes.

  • Our first goal is to create - 200,000 quotes (33% done) and 20,000 completed pages (36% done)
    • To achieve this by the end of 2009, we will have to compile an average of 691 quotes a day and complete an average of 66 pages a day. This will be a challenge but possible if many devotees take up the compiling process.

Serving all together - we can actually do it.

Vanipedia articles - our first theme - Śrīla Prabhupāda's books

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

We invite devotees to write a range of introductory articles that link into Vaniquotes and Vanisource. The first theme will be the topic of Śrīla Prabhupāda's books.

  • appreciating them
  • studying them
  • understanding them
  • printing them
  • distributing them

All articles should be written in a neutral style and supported by the content in Vaniquotes. It will be good if these articles raise questions that stimulate the compiling process to further develop in Vaniquotes. If any of you have nice writing skills and want to participate then please contact us. If you have already written articles relating to our first theme then we can also place these into Vanipedia.

Other resources

Vanipedia websites: Vanisource - Vaniquotes - Vanibooks - Vaniversity - Vanimedia - Vanictionary

Related websites: Vaniseva - Vanistore - Vanimemories

Affiliates: Krishna.com

hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa - kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare - hare rāma hare rāma - rāma rāma hare hare
We appreciate the contribution of © Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International
Personal tools