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.[5][6] Germano has also been the co-director of the UVA Tibet Center since 2008.[7] At the University of Virginia, he is the founding director of both SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives)[8] and the Contemplative Sciences Center.[9]
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.[1] 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.[10]
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. ISBN9004125957.
Germano, David; Trainor, Kevin, eds. (2004). Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia. Albany: SUNY Press. ISBN0791462188.
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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^"David Germano". Contemplative Sciences Center. UVa. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
^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.
^"David Germano". UVa Tibet Center. UVa. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
^"SHANTI". Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives. University of Virginia.
^"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.