Hare Krishna
noun
Ha·re Krish·na
ˈhär-ē-ˈkrish-nə 
ˈher-,
ˈha-rē-
plural Hare Krishna or Hare Krishnas
: a member of a religious group dedicated to the worship of the Hindu god Krishna
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In San Francisco, the band gigged for radical activists, arts spaces, spiritual centers (a Hare Krishna temple, a Zen monastery) and music education.
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Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2024
The Science of Identity Foundation was founded in the 1970s after leader Chris Butler had taken messages of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and the Hare Krishna movement and broke off in his own group with followers from Hawaii, Australia and Southeast Asia.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Das was previously a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna movement), and a legal petition to ban the group's activities was filed in the Bangladesh High Court this week, said India Today.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Nov. 2024
As the journalist Henry Sanderson writes in his book Volt Rush:
The farm became a hippy commune where groups of young people from the Hare Krishna temple worked the apple orchard, meditated, and ate vegetarian food together.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Their proceeds will help support a Hare Krishna hospital in Mumbai and people in need in the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh to the east.
—Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 4 May 2021
Allen Ginsberg chanted Hare Krishna on TV, making earnest eye contact with a visibly uncomfortable William F. Buckley, and again for an audience of Hells Angels at Ken Kesey’s house, famously documented in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
—Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
On Firing Line, the poet Allen Ginsberg chanted a Hare Krishna chant — long.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Feb. 2023
It is hidden down a passageway in the Hare Krishna temple complex on a side street in Culver City.
—Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
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Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2024
The Science of Identity Foundation was founded in the 1970s after leader Chris Butler had taken messages of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and the Hare Krishna movement and broke off in his own group with followers from Hawaii, Australia and Southeast Asia.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Das was previously a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna movement), and a legal petition to ban the group's activities was filed in the Bangladesh High Court this week, said India Today.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Nov. 2024
As the journalist Henry Sanderson writes in his book Volt Rush:
The farm became a hippy commune where groups of young people from the Hare Krishna temple worked the apple orchard, meditated, and ate vegetarian food together.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Their proceeds will help support a Hare Krishna hospital in Mumbai and people in need in the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh to the east.
—Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 4 May 2021
Allen Ginsberg chanted Hare Krishna on TV, making earnest eye contact with a visibly uncomfortable William F. Buckley, and again for an audience of Hells Angels at Ken Kesey’s house, famously documented in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
—Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
On Firing Line, the poet Allen Ginsberg chanted a Hare Krishna chant — long.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Feb. 2023
It is hidden down a passageway in the Hare Krishna temple complex on a side street in Culver City.
—Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
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“Hare Krishna.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hare%20Krishna. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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