Shrivatsa Goswami

Shri Shrivatsa Goswami
Personal life
Born	(1950-10-27) 27 October 1950 (age 74) Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Religious life
Religion	Hinduism
Denomination	Gaudiya Vaishnavism
Lineage	Goswamis
Religious career
Based in	Vrindavan
Post	Acharya of Radha Raman Temple Director of the Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana
Predecessor	Purushottam Goswami
Academic background
Alma mater	Banaras Hindu University
Academic work
Discipline	Indology
Institutions	Banaras Hindu University
Main interests	Hindu philosophy Hindu art

Shrivatsa Goswami (born 27 October 1950) is an Indian Indologist scholar as well as Gaudiya Vaishnava religious leader.^[1][2][3]

Entrance Radha Raman Temple.

He was born in the Vaishnava pilgrimage site of Vrindavan, into a brahmin family whose members were caretakers of Radha Raman Temple for more than four centuries, one of the known Vrindavan temples, founded by Chaitanya's associate, the saint Gopala Bhatta Goswami.^[2][4] Shrivatsa Goswami's father, Purushottam Goswami, was the temple leading priest. In accordance with the family tradition, Shrivatsa Goswami became the acharya of Radha Raman temple. In 1972, he founded a scientific and cultural organization, the "Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana", to the propagation of traditional Vaishnavism, patronised the arts (Raslila dance and other) and scholarship on Vaishnavism, particularly in Vrindavan.^[2][4][5]

Shrivatsa Goswami is a graduate in philosophy of the Banares Hindu University, where he later has taught philosophy and religion. In the mid-1970s he was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions. Shrivatsa Goswami has been associated with the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (a member of the board of editors of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophers) and the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (that is a sponsor for his Vraja Research Project). His scholarly publications in India and the West focus on Vaishnavite philosophy and theology, as well as theater and other aspects of the religious culture of the Braj region.^[2][3]

In addition, Shrivatsa Goswami works in the field of interfaith cooperation. Thus, he is the honorary president of Religions for Peace. And Pope Benedict XVI invited him to represent Hinduism at the 25th anniversary of the World Day of Prayer at Assisi in October 2011.^[3][6]

Selected works

Books

• Hawley, John Stratton; Goswami, Shrivatsa (1981). At Play with Krishna: Pilgrimage Dramas from Brindavan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691064709.
• Goswami, Shrivatsa (2001). Celebrating Krishna. Vrindavan: Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana. ISBN 8190138103.

Contributions

• Goswami, Shrivatsa (1982). "Rādhā: The Play and Perfection of Rasa". In Hawley, John Stratton; Wulff, Donna Marie (eds.). The Divine Consort: Rādhā and the Goddesses of India. Berkeley religious studies series, 3. Berkeley, Ca: Graduate Theological Union. pp. 72–88. ISBN 0-89581-102-2.
• Goswami, Shrivatsa; Gelberg, Steven J. (1983). "Interview with Shrivatsa Goswami". In Gelberg, Steven J. (ed.). Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna: Five Distinguished Scholars on the Krishna Movement in the West, Harvey Cox, Larry D. Shinn, Thomas J. Hopkins, A. L. Basham, Shrivatsa Goswami. Grove Press Eastern Philosophy and Literature Series. New York: Grove Press. pp. 196–258. ISBN 0394624548.
• Goswami, Shrivatsa (1983). "Review of Śrīla Prabhupāda-Līlāmṛta by Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswāmī". The Journal of Asian Studies. 42 (4). Ann Arbor, Mi: Association for Asian Studies: 986–988. doi:10.2307/2054828. ISSN 0021-9118. JSTOR 2054828. S2CID 164018245.
• Goswami, Shrivatsa (1992). "Acintya Bhedābheda". In Rosen, Steven J. (ed.). Vaiṣṇavism: Contemporary Scholars Discuss the Gaudiya Tradition. New York: FOLK Books. pp. 249–260. ISBN 0-9619763-6-5.
• Goswami, Shrivatsa; Case, Margaret H. (2006). "The Miraculous: The Birth of a Shrine". John S. Hawley & Vasudha Narayanan. The Life of Hinduism. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press. pp. 53–62. ISBN 0520249143.

Co-editor

• Potter, Karl H., ed. (1970–2019). Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophers. Vol. 1–25-. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022. Ongoing series project.

References

1. Hawley, John Stratton; Wulff, Donna Marie, eds. (1982). The Divine Consort: Rādhā and the Goddesses of India. Berkeley religious studies series, 3. Berkeley, Ca: Graduate Theological Union. p. 406. ISBN 0-89581-102-2.
2. Rosen, Steven J., ed. (1992). Vaiṣṇavism: Contemporary Scholars Discuss the Gaudiya Tradition. New York: FOLK Books. p. 249. ISBN 0-9619763-6-5.
3. "Shri Shrivatsa Goswami". Religions for Peace. 9 October 2020. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
4. Gelberg, Steven J., ed. (1983). Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna: Five Distinguished Scholars on the Krishna Movement in the West, Harvey Cox, Larry D. Shinn, Thomas J. Hopkins, A. L. Basham, Shrivatsa Goswami. Grove Press Eastern Philosophy and Literature Series. New York: Grove Press. p. 196. ISBN 0394624548.
5. Nandakumar, Prema (19 December 2003), "Religious bonding with the South", The Hindu, archived from the original on 4 November 2008, retrieved 14 February 2022
6. "Acharya Shri Shrivatsa Goswami". World Interfaith Harmony Week. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

Further reading

• Case, Margaret H. (2000). Seeing Krishna: The Religious World of a Brahman Family in Vrindavan. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513010-3.

External links

• Shrivatsa Goswami on Facebook
• Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana on Facebook
• About the Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana. Archived from Gambhira.com