His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the founder Acharya of ISKCON. He travelled to New York in 1965 at the age of 69, to spread the teachings of Lord Chaitanya. On 11th July 1966, he established the ISKCON or International Society for Krishna Consciousness formally. In the next 11 years, he circled the entire world around 14 times. He conveyed the teaching of Lord Krishna to countless people in 6 different continents. Srila Prabhupada—as he’s known to his followers—translated and commented on over eighty volumes of the Vedas’ most important sacred bhakti texts, including the Bhagavad-gita and the multi-volume Srimad-Bhagavatam—an encyclopedic account of Krishna’s many incarnations and devotees in the history of the universe.