Recent Acharyas
The teachers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who carried the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition from Bengal to the entire world: Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, and His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).
6 profiles
Srila Jagannatha Dasa Babaji
Vaishnava Sarvabhauma — Emperor Among the Vaishnavas
c. 1800 – date not precisely recorded; Vaishnava tradition holds he lived to an extraordinary age
6 pastime pages
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
The Seventh Goswami
2 September 1838 – 23 June 1914, at the age of 75
7 pastime pages
Srila Gaura Kishora Dasa Babaji
The Renounced Mendicant of Vrindavana and Nabadwip
17 November 1838 – 17 November 1915, on his 77th birthday
4 pastime pages
Sri Vamsi Dasa Babaji Maharaj
The Paramahamsa Avadhuta of Navadvipa
1859 (one source only; not independently cross-checked) – Shukla Chaturthi, Shravana, 1944 (one source dates this precisely to July 23, 1944)
5 pastime pages
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
Founder of the Gaudiya Math
6 February 1874, 3:30 pm – 1 January 1937, at the age of 62
8 pastime pages
Srila Prabhupada
Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
1 September 1896 – 14 November 1977, at the age of 81
15 pastime pages