The View from the Dark w/ David Germano

​David Germano addresses dark retreat as it sits within the larger world of Dzogchen scholarship and practice. Drawing on decades of work on the Nyingma and Bön lineages, he brings the historical, textual, and philosophical context that makes darkness practice intelligible to a contemporary audience without flattening its complexity. David Germano is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, Director of the UVA Tibet Center, founding Director of the Contemplative Sciences Center, and founder and Director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library — the largest international digital initiative in Tibetan studies.