The Amsterdam Adventure Book
Nine chapter films
The chapter films belong alongside the nine teaser pages below. The video files were not included with the supplied project archive, so each chapter has an editable video field ready for the approved MP4 or hosted video URL.
Video placeholder: film not yet available“The holy names, sung aloud in the middle of Dam Square: few passers-by had heard anything quite like it.”
How a mission begun in New York reached Dam Square and the Concertgebouw.
Read the chapter preview : From New York to Amsterdam: A Movement Crosses the Atlantic
Video placeholder: film not yet available“Each day began with heavy iron pots of prasadam and a forty-five-minute ride into town.”
From a Bijlmermeer high-rise to Bethaniënstraat 39, 1970–1972.
Read the chapter preview : From a High-Rise Flat to a Hidden Temple
Video placeholder: film not yet available“Against a grey, rain-soaked city, the devotees looked almost defiantly happy.”
Winter kirtan, national headlines and a letter meant for a queen.
Read the chapter preview : Rain, Newspaper Headlines and a Letter to the Queen
Video placeholder: film not yet available“We would be extremely honoured if Your Majesty would be so kind as to meet with our beloved spiritual master.”
— From Aksoja’s letter of invitation, July 1972
Aksoja, the hidden Deities and the invitation to Queen Juliana.
Read the chapter preview : The Young Temple President Who Wrote to a Queen
Video placeholder: film not yet available“Chanting and prasadam, he decided, would say more than any speech.”
Srila Prabhupada’s visit, July 28–30, 1972.
Read the chapter preview : Three Days That Changed the Amsterdam Temple
Video placeholder: film not yet available“It’s for your education, not for my sake.”
— Srila Prabhupada afterward, explaining his anger
Behind the curtain at Bethaniënstraat 39 on installation day.
Read the chapter preview : Midnight Preparations and a Last-Minute Altar Crisis
Video placeholder: film not yet available“Devotion, it turned out, needed instruction as well as enthusiasm.”
Daily worship, new faces and the first enterprises, 1972–1973.
Read the chapter preview : Living with the Lord of the Universe
Video placeholder: film not yet available“More than 400 guests on a Sunday, and classes in six languages.”
From a bicycle garage to a seventeenth-century canal house, 1975.
Read the chapter preview : From a Garage to an Amsterdam Canal-Side Sanctuary
Video placeholder: film not yet available“In Amsterdam the mood changed: targets rose, and life on the road grew harder.”
Herengracht at its height, the loss of 1977 and the move to Radhadesh, 1975–1979.
Read the chapter preview : A Golden Age, a Great Loss and the Move to Belgium