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Dr. Barbara Gerke, MSc

Barbara Gerke

barbara.gerke@univie.ac.at

https://www.univie.ac.at/preciouspills/

Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2019). Introduction: Approaching Potent Substances in Medicine and Ritual across Asia. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 69-73.

Gerke, B., Van der Valk, J., & Triplett, K. (2019). Potent Substances in a Thirteenth Century Japanese Scroll Painting. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 4-8. [5]. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/5

Gerke, B. (2019). The Potency of Tradition: Turquoise, Coral, and Pearl in Sowa Rigpa. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 91-110. [13]. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/13

Gerke, B. (2019). Theresia Hofer, Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform. Asian Ethnology, 78(1), 256-258.

Gerke, B. (2018). “The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision Making in Bhutan” by Jonathan Taee. Anthropos, 113, 761-762.

Gerke, B. (2018). The Signature of Recipes: Authorship, Intertextuality and the Epistemic Genre of Tibetan Formulas. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, 45, 178-220.

Gerke, B. (2017). 100th Anniversary Celebrations of the Men–Tsee–Khang - Dharamsala, India. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 37(2), 124-126. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/19/

Gerke, B., & Ploberger, F. (2017). Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises. In P. Salguero (Ed.), Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology (pp. 583-592). Columbia University Press.

Gerke, B. (2017). Review of “Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet” by Frances Garrett, London/New York 2008. Traditional South Asian Medicine, 9, 16-21.

Gerke, B., & Ploberger, F. (2017). The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge. In P. Salguero (Ed.), Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology (pp. 593-601). Columbia University Press.

Gerke, B. (2016). When ngülchu is not Mercury: Tibetan Taxonomies of Metals. In F. Ferrari, & T. Dähnhardt (Eds.), Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy: Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Religions and Culture (pp. 116-140). Equinox Publishing Ltd..

Gerke, B. (2016). Buddhist Healing and Taming in Tibet. In M. Jerryson (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism (pp. 576-590). Oxford University Press.

Gerke, B., & Craig, S. (2016). Naming and Forgetting: Sowa Rigpa and the Recognition of Asian Medical Systems. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 3(2), 87-122.

Gerke, B. (2016). Review of: "Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet" by Janet Gyatso. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 36(1), 196-198. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol36/iss1/26/

Gerke, B. (2016). Review of "The Social Life of Tibetan Biography: Textuality, Community, and Authority in the Lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri" by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa. Asian Highlands Perspective, 40, 395-402.

Gerke, B. (2015). Biographies and Knowledge Transmission of Mercury Processing in Twentieth Century Tibet. Asiatische Studien: Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft, 69(4), 867–899.

Gerke, B. (2012). Long Lives and Untimely Deaths: Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India. Brill. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library Vol. 27 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004217485

The multiple potencies of nine aromatic substances: The Tibetan anti-epidemic amulet formula Nakpo Gujor

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

30 Nov 2023 → 1 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Taming the Poisonous

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

22 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Tibetan Buddhist Longevity Rituals and Traditional Medicine in India

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

13 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

European Conference for South Asian Studies

Jan Van der Valk (Speaker) & Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

28 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

COVID-19 in Sowa Rigpa: Approaching Epidemics in the Texts and Practices of Tibet and the Himalayas

Barbara Gerke (Speaker), Jan Van der Valk (Speaker) & William McGrath (Speaker)

23 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Smellscapes of Protection: NAKPO GUJOR, The 9-Compound Black Pill

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

23 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Sowa Rigpa Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Material Manifestations of Protection and Treatment.

Barbara Gerke (Speaker) & Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)

21 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa and Buddhist Rituals

Barbara Gerke (Speaker), Jan Van der Valk (Speaker), Tawni Lynn Tidwell (Speaker) & Calum Blaikie (Speaker)

4 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Sowa Rigpa Infectious Disease Etiologies, Buddhist Rituals, and COVID-19 Vaccination Compliance

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

28 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Continuity of Potency: Ethnographies of Lineage Substances (phab rta)

Barbara Gerke (Speaker) & Calum Blaikie (Speaker)

13 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Tibetan Spiritual Ecologies of Substances: The Anti-Epidemic “9-Compound Black Pill” (nag po dgu sbyor)

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

6 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Depicting poisons, contagion, and antidotes in Tibetan medical paintings of the 17th century

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

4 Jun 2022

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Precious and Potent: Tibetan Medical Pill Traditions

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

23 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Artisanship in Sowa Rigpa Medicine Making

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

16 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

When Practice Contradicts Texts: The Use of Panacea in Sowa Rigpa

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

27 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Potency, poison cultures, and the politics of toxicity: Processing mercury in Asian medicines

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

21 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Artisanship and "Potency-in-Becoming"

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What Makes a Substance Potent? Senses, Substances, and the Art of Tibetan Pharmacology

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

21 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Enhancing the Potency of Substances in Sowa Rigpa: Chongzhi (cong zhi), the ‘Essence of Stones’

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

11 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"Potency-in-Becoming": Artisanship among Amchi Practitioners Making Sowa Rigpa Medicines in Ladakh

Barbara Gerke (Speaker) & Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)

31 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills: A Project Exhibition at ISTB

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

18 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Sterben am Ganges: Hospize in Varanasi, Indien

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

10 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Starting and running an NGO in India in my Twenties

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

4 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Tod und Sterben in Indien

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The Globalization of Asian Medicines

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Precious Substances in Tibetan Pharmacopoeia: Exploring Tibetan Jewel Pill Ingredients

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

2 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

On the History and Manufacturing of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

26 Sep 2017 → 29 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Challenges in Translating Epistemologies of Toxicity in Tibetan Medical Texts and Ethnographic Encounters

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

11 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Potency of Preciousness: Gems as Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa Pharmacopoeia

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

8 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Entangled Efficacies in the Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

2 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Reformulations in Sowa Rigpa: Thinking about “Classical Formulas” Taking the Example of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Mercury as a chülen in Tibetan traditions

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

21 Oct 2016 → 22 Oct 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Potent substances in Tibetan multicompound formulas: Anthropological considerations

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

1 Sep 2016 → 4 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The Signature of Recipes: Genre, Authenticity and the Development of Tibetan Precious Pill Formulas

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

16 Jun 2016 → 24 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

On the Sensory Engagement with Poisonous Substances: 'Taming' Poisons into Elixirs in Tibetan Pharmacological Practices

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

13 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Pandemic Narratives of Tibet and the Himalayas

Gerke, B., Van der Valk, J. & McGrath, W.

1/12/22 → 30/11/25

Project: Research funding

Potent Substances in Sowa Riga and Buddhist Rituals

Gerke, B. & Van der Valk, J.

11/06/18 → 10/09/24

Project: Research funding

Biografien Tibetischer Kostbarpillen

11/05/15 → 31/01/18

Project: Research funding

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2B-O1-12

barbara.gerke@univie.ac.at