Regarding Awards and Recognition

1. A monthly newsletter shall be sent out to all temples listing all zones and temples in order, giving details of all book sales and including interesting articles concerning developments of preaching fields in various zones.

2. Annual awards shall be presented during Mayapur Gaura-purnima annual festival for outstanding services in the field of sankirtana in the following areas:

a. Most successful country

b. Most improved country

c. Most successful temples (maha- large, large, medium, and small)

d. Most improved temples (maha- large, large, medium, small and maha- small)

e. Top individual sankirtana devotees.

3. Award winners shall be determined each year by the Sankirtana Newsletter staff.

4. A BBT Newsletter may provide financial information.(80)

5. The scoring system for the Sankirtana Newsletter is changed to include the following:

a. For the "Regular" category:

i. To count only literature which is actually sold and given into the hands of the receivers personally, and

ii. Literature distributed by accepting post dated checks shall only be counted when the minimum BBT price has been received.

b. A new category named "Subsidized" for the following methods of distribution:

i. Devotees working in teams of two or more and recording their total group effort as one score,

ii. Subsidized books which are sold at BBT price or less, and

iii. Sponsored books given to people who can value them (i.e.: VIPs, libraries, schools, prisons, etc.).

The above methods of book distribution must be specified when reporting scores to the newsletter.

c. Distribution by individuals and temples who give out literature free of cost shall not be counted in the newsletter.(97-103)

Regarding Book Distribution Techniques

1. Illegal techniques shall not be used on book distribution. Such illegal methods include: misrepresenting one's physical health, claiming falsely that contributions go for welfare projects and claiming falsely to be affiliated with a charity.(77)

2. "If costumes are used on sankirtana it must be done legally with permits from local authority".(77)

3. Each GBC Zonal Secretary man will go out in the field in each of his temples during the year to observe the same [to know how his devotees are implementing the resolution, "no illegal techniques".](77)

14.2.3 Regarding Traveling Sankirtana

No GBC member shall allow the sankirtana parties of his zone to carry out sankirtana activities outside of his zone without having received the express written permission of the host GBC Zonal Secretary or the Temple President concerned.(80)

Regarding Srila Prabhupada Marathon

1. The Christmas marathon shall be officially titled the "Srila Prabhupada Marathon".

2. Only legal and ethical techniques shall be used on book distribution and other techniques are not to be used. The standard of approved sankirtana techniques can be obtained from the GBC Minister for book distribution.(77)

Seminars Conducted by the Ministry for Book Distribution

1. The five-day seminar course established by the Global Book Distribution Minister is accepted as the official training course for all ISKCON book distributors. This course is to be taken by all:

a. New regular book distributors within the first twelve months of their book distributing career, and

b. Regular book distributors by Gaura-purnima 1998, and

c. Part time book distributors are encouraged to take this course.

2. The Global Book Distribution Minister is responsible to supervise the standard and content of the Book Distribution Graduate Course, promote it, and ensure that the requirements of this resolution are met.

Guidelines

1. The Temple Presidents should give an absolute minimum of twenty five percent(25%) of the Temples income for book distribution.(81)

2. Each temple may give books to ISKCON centers in third-world countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Africa and Latin America for establishing Krsna conscious reading rooms. The temple contributing should receive sankirtana points for those books according to the Book Distribution Ministry approved system. In such a case the recipients will not receive points.(79)

Congregational Development

Significance

That the leaders of ISKCON, as followers of Srila Prabhupada, ought to see the duty of training and facilitating congregational members as their primarily function, in order to fulfill the order of Lord Caitanya: "Therefore I order every man within this universe to accept this Krsna consciousness movement and distribute it everywhere." and the numerous instructions that Srila Prabhupada has given in his books, lectures, letters and conversations on how people can practice Krsna consciousness in their home, be initiated, establish a center in their home, preach Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam from their home. Wherever we have powerful leaders-whether GBC members, gurus, sannyasis, or Temple Presidents-they ought to impress upon their followers that everyone must be brought into the congregation and empowered to preach Krsna consciousness purely. This will directly please Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada. Congregational preaching should be understood to be one of the most essential works of ISKCON (books are the basis; preaching is the essence) following the footsteps of Lord Nityananda and the previous acaryas.

Guidelines

15.2.1 Encouraging the Congregation\: The Siksa Ceremony

1. ISKCON Leaders and GBC Members (with the exception of ISKCON initiating spiritual masters who cannot perform this ceremony except when it is for an approved guru-asraya (sheltered) or approved aspirant disciple) shall, within their area of authority, be permitted to publicly bestow acceptance and recognition to members of its congregation for devotional achievements and progress in devotional service.

2. Local temples and congregational preaching units should implement programs for aiding the congregational members to enhance their standing, and for training them to qualify for the higher levels. This should include following a recommended study course for the different levels (Adult Education and Congregational Preaching Monitors shall recommend.)

3. Standard certificates shall be issued worldwide. (The proforma certificates shall be created and circulated by the Corresponding Secretary in consultation with the Congregational Preaching Monitor.)

4. The recognition shall be granted in any of the following categories (giving these is optional, as also the bestowal ceremony according to local time, place and circumstance):