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sitproperly on Aug 27th 2008 Gaudia Vaisnava

Well, this is weird. (OOP BBT Books)

I was checking out Krishna.com’s selection of Prabhupada books, looking for a Teachings of Lord Caitanya. Normally, I’d buy the pre-1978 books (the ones prior to the unauthorized changes) at Krishna.tv, but their privately printed copy of the original Teachings of Lord Caitanya is out of print.

But what I came to discover was that the BBT’s current edition of TLC is also out of print. You can get an Indian paperback, which is fine, but BBT America’s edition is gone.

Krishna.tv has the original edition of Teachings of Queen Kunti (one of my favorite books). But BBT allowed their edition of Teachings of Queen Kunti to go out of print. Weird.

Also, the BBT allowed Teachings of Lord Kapila to go out (TLK was never re-edited after Srila Prabhupada’s edition – I assume). What’s really weird is that on the BBT website, they don’t even have it listed as a book they put out.

This is really a strange thing, isn’t it? Teachings of Lord Caitanya is pretty amazing. As are the other two “Teachings of” books. Why let them go out of print?

My hope (and I realize this is pretty pie in the sky) is that they reprint them as the originals next time around.

Lucky for me, I have the original editions of all of these. I bought Teachings of Lord Caitanya from Krishna.tv a couple of years ago. The other two, I just acquired along the way. Lucky for me, yeah. But what about the devotees who don’t have these books? I can’t imagine there’s a line around the block for the Lord Kapila book, but there’s got to be some need or want for Queen Kunti. And there’s definitely got to be people asking for Teachings of Lord Caitanya (though, like I said, the Indian edition is still available).

Of course, all three books are available for free, online. However, I’ve never been able to get really into a book online. Books are the basis!

I emailed the BBT (America) and asked them if/when they’ll be reprinted. We’ll hopefully have an answer before too long. I’ll let you know what it is when I get it.

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