# International Society for Krishna Consciousness > [!info] Stub — expand later > Minimum-viable page created to support links from [[Science of Identity Foundation]] and [[Chris Butler]]. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava religious organization founded in New York City in 1966 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Within the RWKB it matters chiefly as the parent movement from which [[Chris Butler]] broke after Prabhupada's 1977 death to found the [[Science of Identity Foundation]] — the Hawaii sect in which [[Tulsi Gabbard]] was raised. ## Related - [[Science of Identity Foundation]] — Butler's breakaway organization - [[Chris Butler]] — former ISKCON guru who split off - [[Hinduism]] — the broader Vaishnava tradition