David Germano, PhD, is Executive Director of the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia, where he has taught and researched Tibetan and Buddhist Studies since 1992. A co-leader of the Student Flourishing Initiative, a partnership of UVA, the University of Wisconsin, and Penn State University, he is also lead organizer of an international research community of scholars and translators specializing in the Great Perfection tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
