Original sentence: Kirtanananda Swami (; September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011), also known as Bhaktipada (), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru and the co-founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served as spiritual leader from 1968 until 1994.The first sannyasi in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), he also served as an initiating guru in ISKCON from 1977 until his expulsion in 1987
Edited sentence: Kirtanananda Swami (; September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011),<ref name="MargalitFox", Ex-Hare Krishna Leader, Dies at 74|url=The New York Times|author=Margalit Fox|author-link=Margalit Fox|date=October 24, 2011}}</ref> also known as Bhaktipada (), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava and the co-founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served from 1968 until 1994.The first sannyasi in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness