# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bhakti-tirtha-swami
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:38:04.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bhakti-tirtha-swami"
name: "Bhakti Tirtha Swami"
slug: "bhakti-tirtha-swami"
description: "Bhakti Tirtha Swami, previously called John Favors and Toshombe Abdul and also known by the honorific Krishnapada, was a guru and governing body commissioner of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He was the highest-ranking African American in ISKCON."
tagline: "American Hindu writer (1950-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bhakti_Tirtha_Swami.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-02-25"
deathDate: "2005-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.088086666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bhakti Tirtha Swami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ভক্তিতীর্থ স্বামী"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bhakti Tirtha Swami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bhakti_Tirtha_Swami"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Бхакти Тиртха Свами"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bhakti_Tirtha_Swami"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4100783"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump