Whatman, Semyon Viktorovich

Paternal grandfather - Semyon Davydovich Whatman (1905-1941), metallurgical engineer, doctor of technical sciences, professor, author of the book “Scrap of ferrous metals in the USSR” (Moscow: Metallurgizdat, 1941). ^[3] Before the start of World War II, he lived in Kharkov . ^[3] In the war - senior lieutenant , commander of a fire platoon , in 1941, while leaving the encirclement, he went missing. ^[4] My paternal grandmother is Maria Yulievna Dolinskaya (1906-1977). ^[5] Paternal great-grandmother - Rachel Isakovna Whatman. ^[6] Parents: Victor Semenovich Whatman (1932-1985) and Larisa Petrovna Whatman (Lisovskaya; born in 1931).

In 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering with a degree in architecture. ^[7] In 2002, St. Petersburg State University, under the scientific supervision of a doctor of philosophical sciences, professor E. A. Torchinov, defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of philosophical sciences on the topic “The philosophical and theological system of Bengali Vaishnavism (based on the works of Jiva Goswami , Krishnadasa Kaviraji and Baladeva Vidyabhushany ) ”(specialty 09.00.13 -“ Religious studies, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture ”). Since September 2005, he has been a senior lecturer , and since February 2009, an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts . ^[7]

According to the data for 2017, he is working on a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on the topic “The Reception of the Mystical Experience in Bengal Cherry Visage of the 16th – 18th Centuries”. ^[7]

In 1990, he engaged in activities related to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). ^[2] Is a disciple of ISKCON guru Prabhavishnu Swami . ^[8] In the 1990s, he was one of the “active figures of Krishnaism in St. Petersburg”. ^[2] He headed the first Russian gurukula (Vedic theological school) and the center of public relations of ISKCON in St. Petersburg, ^[8] was chairman of the council of the St. Petersburg community of ISKCON. ^[2]

Positive

In 2004, in an interview with the Internet- portal Portal-Credo.Ru, the religious scholar S.I. Ivanenko , answering a question about impressions from the reports of members of the Center for Krishna Consciousness Societies in Russia submitted to the section "Religious Studies" of the XXXVII World Congress of Orientalists, held in Moscow on 16- August 21, noted that he “ also liked the performance of the representative of St. Petersburg Cand. Philos. Semen Viktorovich Whatman’s sciences on the history of Bengali Vaishnavism (the current in Hinduism, to which the USC belongs) , which, in his opinion, “ showed both a deep knowledge of the sources, and an understanding of the trends that exist in modern oriental studies, and the ability to comprehend them in line with scientific paradigm . " ^[9] In 2006, in an article published in the Hare Krishna journal Vaishnavism: an open forum, Ivanenko expressed the opinion that “ with rare scientific thoroughness and conscientiousness, links to sources and detailed reasoning ” in the book “Bengali Vaishnavism”, Whatman put forward the idea that that "there are serious arguments in favor of the fact that, following the monotheistic tradition within sampradaya Gaudiya Vaishnava , ISKCON expresses one of the main trends in orthodox Hinduism , which is in harmony with the spiritual and moral insights of biblical etc. Rokoff . " ^[ten]

Critical

In 2009, the religious scholar E. E. Deryagina ^{[ref. 1]} noted that " representatives of Western and Russian Vaishnavism in independent, including scientific, studies substantiate the traditional character of communities existing outside India " and indicate that " in modern Russian science, studies of apologists of Vaishnavism : candidates of philosophical sciences of S.V. Whatman (Sutapa Das) and A.S. Timoshchuk (Abkhinanda prabhu) . ” ^[one]

Theses

• Whatman S. V. The philosophical and theological system of Bengali Vaishnavism: Based on the works of Jiva Goswami, Krishnadasa Kaviraja and Baladeva Vidyabhushana / dissertation ... candidate of philosophical sciences: 09.00.13. - SPb. : St. Petersburg State University , 2002 .-- 301 s.

Indian philosophy. Encyclopedia

• Whatman S.V. Baladeva Vidyabhushana // Indian Philosophy: Encyclopedia / Otv. ed. M.T. Stepanyants ; Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences . - M .: Publishing company "Eastern Literature" RAS , Academic project , Gaudeamus , 2009. - S. 138-142. - 952 s. - (Summa). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-02-036357-1 , ISBN 978-5-8291-1163-2 , ISBN 978-5-98426-073-2 .
• Whatman S.V. Bengali Vishnuism // Indian Philosophy: Encyclopedia / Otv. ed. M.T. Stepanyants ; Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences . - M .: Publishing company "Oriental literature" of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academic project , Gaudeamus , 2009. - S. 289—291. - 952 s. - (Summa). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-02-036357-1 , ISBN 978-5-8291-1163-2 , ISBN 978-5-98426-073-2 .
• Whatman S.V. Jiva Goswami // Indian Philosophy: Encyclopedia / Otv. ed. M.T. Stepanyants ; Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences . - M .: Publishing company "Eastern Literature" of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academic project , Gaudeamus , 2009. - S. 351-354. - 952 s. - (Summa). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-02-036357-1 , ISBN 978-5-8291-1163-2 , ISBN 978-5-98426-073-2 .
• Whatman S.V. Chaitanya // Indian Philosophy: Encyclopedia / Otv. ed. M.T. Stepanyants ; Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences . - M .: Publishing company "Oriental literature" of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academic project , Gaudeamus , 2009. - S. 834-836. - 952 s. - (Summa). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-02-036357-1 , ISBN 978-5-8291-1163-2 , ISBN 978-5-98426-073-2 .

Monographs

• Whatman S.V. Bengal Vaishnavism / Ed. S.V. Pakhomova . - SPb. : Publishing House of St. Petersburg State University , 2005. - 403 p. - ISBN 5-288-03579-2 .

Articles

• Whatman S.V. Text, tradition, experience // Sacred texts in the history of culture. Materials of VII St. Petersburg religious readings. - SPb. : State Museum of the History of Religion , 1999.
• Whatman S.V. Modern Vaishnashnism: History, Doctrine, Practice // Life and Security. Scientific and educational analytical journal. - 1999. - No. 3-4 . - S. 553-581 .
• Whatman S.V. Sweeper in the market of holy names. Onomatology Bhaktivinoda Thakura // Bulletin of St. Petersburg University . Scientific and theoretical journal. Series 6. Philosophy. Political science. - SPb. : Publishing House St. Petersburg State University , 2001. - Vol. 2 . - No. 14 . Archived on March 22, 2002.
• Whatman S.V. Divine revelation as the basis of religious thought // Second Torchinov readings. Religious and oriental studies. Materials of the scientific conference. - SPb. : Publishing House SPbSU , 2005.
• Whatman S.V. Followers of Sri Chaitanya in St. Petersburg // Collection of articles on the materials of the scientific-practical conference "Russia and India: mutual influence of cultures on the example of St. Petersburg." - SPb. : Ayurveda Plus, 2006.
• Whatman S. V. On the aesthetic position in intercultural dialogue // Modern problems of intercultural communications. Digest of articles. St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. Proceedings. - SPb. : SPbGUKI , 2006 .-- T. 172 .
• Whatman S.V. To the phenomenology of a sacred event. The experience of comparing the traditions of East and West // Fourth Torchinov readings. Religious and oriental studies. Materials of the scientific conference. - SPb. : Publishing House SPbSU , 2007.
• Whatman S.V. Religious experience as a subject of philosophical reflection // World Politics and Ideological Paradigms of the Epoch. Digest of articles. - SPb. : Publishing house SPbGUKI, 2008.
• Whatman S.V. Traditional Indian stories in the performances of the St. Petersburg Vishnuite community // Modern problems of intercultural communications. Digest of articles. St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - SPb. : SPbGUKI , 2010. - Issue. 4: East – West. In memory of M.S. Kagan . - S. 378-387 . - ISSN 2308-0051 . ( copy )
• Whatman S.V. Modern Vaishnavism: History and Creed // Freedom of Conscience in Russia: Historical and Contemporary Aspects. Digest of articles. Issue 8 / Comp. and commonly. Ed .: E.N. Melnikova, M.I. Odintsov . - Russian Association of Researchers of Religion . - M. , 2010 .-- S. 5-35. - 398 p. - ISBN 978-5-9902187-1-0 .
• Whatman S. V. The concept of bhakti-race in Bengal Vishnuism (English) // Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - SPb. : SPbGUKI , 2010 .-- No. 1 (5) . - P. 157-167 . - ISSN 2220-3044 .
• Whatman S.V. Image of the personified female world principle in the traditions of the West and the East // Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - SPb. : SPbGUKI , 2011. - No. 1 (6) . - S. 138-150 . - ISSN 2220-3044 . ( copy )
• Whatman S.V. Image of the Indian preacher Chaitanya in traditional texts // Transactions of St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - SPb. : SPbSUKI , 2014. - T. 203. Living Ethics and Culture: Ideas of the Roerichs Family Heritage in Our Life . - S. 367-377 . - ISSN 2308-0051 . Archived July 1, 2016. ( copy 1 ), copy 2
• Whatman S. V. The concept of bhakti in the texts of traditional Vishnuite thinkers // Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - SPb. : SPbGUKI , 2015. - No. 2 (23) . - S. 48-57 . - ISSN 2220-3044 . ( copy 1 ), ( copy 2 )
• Whatman S. V. The Unity of Intellectual and Artistic Components of Russian Symbolism: Inter-Cathedral Seminar, St. Petersburg, SPbGIK, April 20, 2015 // Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - 2015. - No. 2 (23) . - S. 181-185 . - ISSN 2220-3044 . ( copy 1 , copy 2 )
• Whatman S.V. Mystical experience and its interpretations: problems of research (on the example of Bengal Vishnuism) // Bulletin of the A.S. Pushkin Leningrad State University. Philosophy. - Pushkin: Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin , 2015.- T. 2 , No. 2 . - S. 250—261 . ( copy )
• Whatman S.V. Vyacheslav Ivanov's Philosophy of Art: Dialectics of the Fall and Apotheosis // Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - SPb. : SPbGUKI , 2015. - No. 3 (24) . - S. 140-151 . - ISSN 2220-3044 . ( copy 1 ), ( copy 2 )
• Whatman S.V. Reception of the mystical experience in Bengali Vishnuism of the XVI – XVIII centuries. as a subject of scientific research // Bulletin of the A.S. Pushkin Leningrad State University. Philosophy. - Pushkin: Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin , 2015. - T. 2 , No. 4 . - S. 212-225 . ( copy )
• Whatman S.V. To the study of the concept of a symbol in the philosophy of culture of Andrei Bely // Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - SPb. : SPbGUKI , 2016. - No. 1 (26) . - S. 48-53 . - ISSN 2220-3044 . ( copy 1 ), ( copy 2 )
• Whatman S.V. Interrelation of the mystical and aesthetic in the religious culture of India: to the formulation of the problem // Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. - 2016. - No. 2 (27) . - S. 69-72 . - ISSN 2220-3044 .

Translations

• Baladeva Vidyabhushana . Brahma-sutra-govinda-bhashya (Explanations of Govinda to the "Brahma-sutras") // The Light of Dharma: Anthology of Traditional Indian Philosophy / Comp., Entry. Art., total. ed. S.V. Pakhomov . - SPb. : “Amphora” , Petroglyph, 2013. - S. 464-508. - 576 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-367-02823-2 , ISBN 978-5-4357-0221-7 . ( Sanskrit translation and commentary)
• Whatman S. V. From the translator // The Light of Dharma: Anthology of Traditional Indian Philosophy / Comp., Entry. Art., total. ed. S.V. Pakhomov . - SPb. : “Amphora” , Petroglyph, 2013. - S. 459-464. - 576 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-367-02823-2 , ISBN 978-5-4357-0221-7 .

• Whatman S.V. Vaishnavas and Russian culture in the 17th-19th centuries // Vaishnavism: an open forum. - M .: Center for Krishna Consciousness Societies in Russia , 1997. - No. 1 . - ISSN 2412-8325 .
• Whatman S.V. Orthodoxy and Vaishnavism // Vaishnavism: an open forum. - M .: Center for Krishna Consciousness Societies in Russia , 2015. - No. 5 . - S. 136—148 . - ISSN 2412-8325 .
• Whatman S.V. Revelation and Reason in Orthodoxy and Vaishnavism // Vaishnavism: an open forum. - M .: Center for Krishna Consciousness Societies in Russia , 2016. - No. 6 . - ISSN 2412-8325 .

• Gimadeva E. Opinion: "The construction of the Vedic cultural center in Moscow will not solve the problem of the relationship between Hindus and Indologists," - Doctor of Philosophy Sergei Ivanenko // Portal-Credo.Ru . - September 15, 2004. Archived on April 28, 2016.
• Deryagina E. E. Vaishnavism: the processes of transformation and modernization in Russia at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries. / abstract of thesis. ... candidate of philosophical sciences: 09.00.13. - Omsk: Ohm. state ped Univ. , 2009 .-- 16 p.
• Ivanenko S. I. The problem of assessing the authority of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness from the point of view of religious studies // Vaishnavism: Open Forum . - 2006. - No. 4 . Archived March 4, 2016.
• Chapter 13. Krishnaism // Nikitin V.N. , Obukhov V.L. Beliefs of the world's religions. - SPb. : Khimizdat , 2001. Archived April 23, 2015.