David Germano
{{short description|American Tibetologist}}
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| workplaces = University of Virginia
| alma_mater = University of Wisconsin–Madison
| thesis_title = Poetic thought, the intelligent Universe, and the mystery self: The Tantric synthesis of Dzogchen (rdzogs-chen) in fourteenth century Tibet
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David Francis Germano is an American Tibetologist and professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA),{{cite web |url=https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/david-germano |title=David Germano |author= |website= UVa Religious Studies |publisher=UVa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123155603/https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/david-germano |access-date=23 January 2024|archive-date=2024-01-23 }} where he has dual appointments in its School of Nursing and Department of Religious Studies. Germano is a former board member of the International Association of Tibetan Studies,{{Cite web |title=People | IATS |url=http://www.iats.info/people/}} and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS),{{Citation |title=The Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies |date=August 2013 |website=Tibetan and Himalayan Library |issue=7 |url=http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#!jiats=/current/ |publisher=The International Association of Tibetan Studies |issn=1550-6363 |accessdate=7 August 2014}} a journal of Tibetology.{{cite web |author= |title=Tibetan Studies |url=http://library.columbia.edu/locations/eastasian/tibetan/guide/tibetan_studies.html |access-date=7 August 2014 |website=Columbia University Libraries Information Services |publisher=Columbia University}}
Career
In 2000, Germano founded the Tibetan and Himalayan Library, a digital initiative for collaborative knowledge-building about the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. He has also served as its director since its inception.{{cite web |author= |title=David Germano |url=http://uvacontemplation.org/content/david-germano |access-date=25 July 2014 |website=Contemplative Sciences Center |publisher=UVa}}{{cite web |url=http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/r/155/whm.html |title=Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library |last1=DeCaroli |first1=Robert |date=August 2003 |website=World History Sources|publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University |access-date=2014-08-13}} Germano has also been the co-director of the UVA Tibet Center since 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.uvatibetcenter.org/?page_id=1699 |title=David Germano |author= |website=UVa Tibet Center |publisher=UVa |access-date=25 July 2014}} At the University of Virginia, he is the founding director of both SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives){{cite web |url=http://shanti.virginia.edu/ |title=SHANTI |author= |website=Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives |publisher= University of Virginia}} and the Contemplative Sciences Center.{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Jane |title=Contemplative Sciences Center Q&A With David Germano |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/contemplative-sciences-center-qa-david-germano |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=UVA Today |publisher=University of Virginia |date=October 9, 2013}}
Education
Germano received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from the University of Notre Dame and later pursued his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, focusing on Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies. Germano lived and studied in various regions of Asia for over a decade. His experiences included time in areas with dense population of Tibetans and other Himalayan Buddhists spanning Tibet, China, Bhutan, India, and Nepal."Living Relics of the Buddha(s) in Tibet," Germano, David. Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia. Edited by David Germano and Kevin Trainor. Albany: State University of New York, 2004. 51-92.
Research interests
Germano's research focuses on philosophical and contemplative traditions in Tibet, with a particular emphasis on Dzogchen in the Nyingma and Bön traditions and Tibetan historical literature. He also investigates the contemporary state of Tibetan religion and its dynamic relationship with China.{{cite web |author= |title=Erseh Project Groups:Participants Bios |url=http://indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/FINAL_ParticipantBios.pdf |access-date=4 August 2014 |website=India China Institute |publisher=The New School |page=8 |location=New York}}
Publications
- {{Cite book
| editor-last = Germano
| editor-first = David
| editor2-last = Eimer
| editor2-first = Helmut
| others = The International Association for Tibetan Studies Seminar: 2000 Leiden
| year = 2002
| title = The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism
| series = Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
| publisher = Brill
| publication-place = Leiden
| isbn = 9004125957
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- {{Cite book
| editor-last = Germano
| editor-first = David
| editor2-last = Trainor
| editor2-first = Kevin
| year = 2004
| title = Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia
| publisher = SUNY Press
| publication-place = Albany
| isbn =0791462188
}}
- Germano, David F. and Kevin Trainor, eds (2004). Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia. SUNY.
- Germano, David F. with Eveline Yang and others. "Tibetan Furniture Making: Traditions and Innovations" (2004): a documentary produced and exhibited at the "Wooden Wonders" exhibition, Pacific Asian Art Museum in Los Angeles, November 2004.
- Germano, David F. (2005). “The History of Funerary rDzogs chen.” In the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, vol. 1 , www.jiats.org.
- Germano, David F. with Gregory Hillis (2005). "Klong chen rab ‘byams pa." In Encyclopedia of Religions, Macmillan Reference USA.
- Germano, David F. with Gregory Hillis (2005). "Tibetan Buddhist Meditation." In Encyclopedia of Religions, Macmillan Reference USA.
- Germano, David F. (2005). "Atiyoga/Great Perfection." In Encyclopedia of Religions, Macmillan Reference USA.
- Germano, David and William S. Waldron (2006). "The Arising of Ālaya: History and Doctrine." In The Buddha’s Way: The Confluence of Buddhist Thought and Contemporary Psychology in the Post-Modern Age, editor D. K. Nauriyal, Routledge Curzon Press.
- Germano, David (2007). “The Shifting Terrain of the Tantric Bodies of Buddhas and Buddhists from an Atiyoga Perspective.” In The Pandita and the Siddha: Tibetan Studies in Honour of E. Gene Smith, edited by Ramon Prats. Amnye Machen Institute.
- Germano, David (2007). “Re-membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People’s Republic of China.” An abridged version published in Defining Buddhisms: A Reader, edited by Karen Derris and Natalie Gummer in the series “Critical Categories in the Study of Religion,” edited by Russell T. McCutcheon for Equinox Publishing.
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