David Germano
David Germano is an American Tibetologist and professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia.
In addition to teaching in the Department of Religious Studies, where he has advised many doctoral students since 1992, Germano is director of the Tibet Center,[1] director of the Contemplative Sciences Center,[2] and director of SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives) at the University of Virginia. He also is the founder and director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL, www.thlib.org), the largest international initiative using digital technology to facilitate collaboration in Tibetan Studies across disciplines.
His personal research interests are focused on the Nyingma and Bön lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, tantric traditions overall, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan historical literature and concerns, particularly from the eighth to fifteenth centuries. He also does research on the contemporary state of Tibetan religion in relationship to China, and non-monastic yogic communities in cultural Tibet, and has broad intellectual interests in international philosophical and literary traditions, including hermeneutics, phenomenology, literary criticism, systems theory, and so forth. [Source: UVA faculty page]
- Further reading
- David Germano (faculty page), University of Virginia
David Germano, Wikipedia
Germano, D., Tsadra Commons- Buddha-Nature and the Great Perfection in the 11-14th Centuries by David Germano, Buddha Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative
