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David Germano

Associate Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6728

Address:
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126

Research Interests

The Nyingma and Bön lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, tantric traditions, and Tibetan historical literature and concerns, particularly from the eighth to fifteenth centuries; the current renaissance of Buddhism in the People's Republic of China, and non-monastic yogic communities in cultural Tibet; methodological issues such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, literary criticism, systems theory, and so forth within the context of Buddhist Studies.

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Notre Dame
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Wisconsin System : Madison

Research Projects

Current Projects

Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library

Since 1999, I have been intensively involved with leading the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library. THDL is a major initiative in humanities computing and is attempting to build a model digital library based upon a specific part of the world (namely, Tibet and the Himalayas). As such, it includes extensive literature, images, audio-video, maps and much else, while ranging over many different disciplines.