David Germano

David Germano
Residence Charlottesville, Virginia
Citizenship United States
Nationality US
Institutions University of Virginia
Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis Poetic thought, the intelligent Universe, and the mystery self: The Tantric synthesis of rDzogs Chen in fourteenth century Tibet
Known for Tibetology

David Francis Germano is an American Tibetologist.

Germano is currently Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia (UVa),[1] the largest Tibetan Studies program in the Americas, where he has taught and researched since 1992.[2] He is on the board of the International Association of Tibetan Studies[3] and is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS),[4] a leading journal of Tibetology.[5] In 2000, he founded the Tibetan and Himalayan Library, a digital initiative for collaborative building of knowledge on the region.[2][6]

Since 2008 he has also been the co-director of the UVa Tibet Center.[7] More recently, Germano acted as the founding director of SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives) at the UVa.[8] Since 2011, Germano has also played a leading role in organizing the University of Virginia's Contemplative Sciences Center, which he currently directs. He also holds a faculty position in the UVa School of Nursing as Climical Professor of Nursing.[2][9]

Education

He received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Notre Dame, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD),from University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Research Interests

Germano's research interests include philosophical, and contemplative traditions in Tibet particularly Dzogchen in the Nyingma and Bön traditions, and Tibetan historical literature and concerns. He also does research on the contemporary state of Tibetan religion in relationship to China, and non-monastic yogic communities in cultural Tibet.[1][10] He is currently working on a fourfold set of works constituting a comprehensive analysis of the Great Perfection Seminal Heart (rdzogs chen snying thig) tradition from its early formation to its full expression in the fourteenth century with the works of Longchenpa. This will include a translation of one of Longchenpa's major works, The Treasury of Words and Meanings (tshig don mdzod), and historical, philosophical study, and literary studies of that tradition.[1]

Publications

Edited Books

  • Germano, David; Trainor, Kevin, eds. (2004). Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia. Albany: SUNY Press. ISBN 0791462188.
  • Germano, David; Eimer, Helmut, eds. (2002). The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library. The International Association for Tibetan Studies Seminar: 2000 Leiden. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9004125957.

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Articles

  • (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.
  • Germano, David (2007). "The shifting terrain of the tantric bodies of Buddhas and Buddhists from an Atiyoga perspective". In Prats, Ramon. The Pandita and the Siddha: Tibetan Studies in Honour of E. Gene Smith. Amnye Machen Institute.
  • (2006) with William S. Waldron. “The Arising of Alaya: 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 (2005). "Three Decades and Eighteen PhDs: The Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Legacy of Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia". Tibetan and Himalayan Library.
  • (2005) “Atiyoga/Great Perfection”. In Encyclopedia of Religions, Macmillan Reference USA.
  • (2005) with Gregory Hillis, “Tibetan Buddhist Meditation”. In Encyclopedia of Religions, Macmillan Reference USA.
  • (2005) with Gregory Hillis, “Klong chen rab ‘byams pa”. In Encyclopedia of Religions, Macmillan Reference USA.
  • (2005) “The History of Funerary rDzogs chen”. In the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, vol. 1 , www.jiats.org.
  • (2004) with Eveline Yang and others, “Tibetan Furniture Making: Traditions and Innovations”: a documentary produced and exhibited at the “Wooden Wonders” exhibition, Pacific Asian Art Museum in Los Angeles, November 2004.
  • (2004) “Relics of the Living Buddha in Tibet”. In Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia, editors David Germano and Kevin Trainor, SUNY.
  • Germano, David F. (2003). "A Brief Survey of Issues Relating to Tibetan Language in the 21st Century" (PDF). Congressional Executive Commission on China. CECC.
  • (2002) “The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library”. In the “In Brief” column of D-Lib Magazine (May 2002, www.dlib.org). Republished in ACCESS (www.igroupnet.com).
  • (2002) “The Seven Descents and the Nature of sNga’ ‘gyur: The “history” of rNying ma tantras”. In The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism, Brill Press.
  • (2001) with Nathaniel Garson. “The Rise of “Thematic Research Collections” in the study, teaching and transmission of Buddhist scriptures”. Journal of Electronic Buddhist Texts, Volume 3, December 2001, pp. 147-190. Published by Electronic Buddhist Text Institute, Seoul, Korea.
  • (2001) “Encountering Tibet: The Ethics, Soteriology and Creativity of Cross-cultural Interpretation”. In the Journal of the American Academy of Religions.
  • (2000) with Janet Gyatso “Longchenpa and the Posessions of Dakinis”. Tantra in Practice, edited by David White, Princeton University Press.
  • (1998) “Re-membering the dismembered body of Tibet: The contemporary Ter movement in the PRC”. In Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity (editors Melvyn Goldstein and Matthew Kapstein); Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
  • (1997) “Dying, death and other opportunities”. In Religions of Tibet in Practice (editor Donald Lopez), pp. 458-493; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • (1997) “Food, clothes, dreams and karmic propensities” In Religions of Tibet in Practice (editor Donald Lopez), pp. 293-312; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • (1997) “Preliminary practices: craziness, the elements and the letter Hum”. In Religions of Tibet in Practice (editor Donald Lopez), pp. 313-334; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • (1994) “Architecture and Absence in the Secret Tantric History of rDzogs Chen”. In The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, vol. 17.2, pp. 203-335.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "David Germano". UVa Religious Studies. UVa. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "David Germano". Contemplative Sciences Center. UVa. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.iats.info/people/
  4. ↑ "The Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies", Tibetan and Himalayan Library (The International Association of Tibetan Studies) (7), August 2013, ISSN 1550-6363, retrieved 7 August 2014
  5. ↑ "Tibetan Studies:". Columbia University Libraries Information Services. Columbia University. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  6. ↑ DeCaroli, Robert (August 2003). "Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library". World History Sources. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University,. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  7. ↑ "David Germano". UVa Tibet Center. UVa. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "SHANTI". Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives. University of Virginia.
  9. ↑ "David F. Germano C.V." (PDF). University of Virginia. 2013.
  10. ↑ "Erseh Project Groups:Participants Bios" (PDF). India China Institute. New York: The New School. p. 8. Retrieved 4 August 2014.

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