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Dr. Barbara Gerke, MSc

barbara.gerke@univie.ac.at

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

Gerke, B. (2024). Sowa Rigpa, Vajrayana Buddhism, and COVID-19 Vaccines in India and Bhutan. Asian Medicine, 19, 164-189. https://brill.com/view/journals/asme/19/1/article-p164_7.xml

Arya, P. Y., Van der Valk, J., & Gerke, B. (2023). Tashi Yangphel Tashigang. Web publication, Treasury of Lives.

Gerke, B. (2023). Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia by Tatiana Chudakova. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. pp. 344. Medical Anthropology Quarterly: international journal for the cultural and social analysis of health. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12770

Gerke, B., Van der Valk, J., & McGrath, W. A. (2023). Thinking about Contagion and Epidemic Disease in Tibetan and Himalayan Medical Contexts: Introducing the “Pandemic Narrative” Research Project. Web publication

Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2022). Potent Substances project expo: Sowa Rigpa pandemic responses. Web publication

Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2022). Working with calcite: Potency as process. Web publication

Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2022). Tibetan Materialities workshop reflections: University of Copenhagen, 12-13 May 2022. Web publication

Gerke, B. (2022). Allegiance to whose community? Effects of Men-Tsee-Khang policies on the role and identity of amchi in the Darjeeling Hills. In L. Pordié, & S. Kloos (Eds.), Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021759-008

Gerke, B. (2022). Review of A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine, written by C. Pierce Salguero. Asian Medicine, 17(2), 328-330. https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341519

Gerke, B. (2021). Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice. (1 ed.) Heidelberg University Publishing. Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality Vol. 7 https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.746

Gerke, B. (2020). Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental Health and Healing in a Tibetan Exile Community, written by Susannah Deane. Asian Medicine, 15(1), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341467

Craig, S. R., Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). Asian Medicines, COVID-19 and the Politics of Science: An Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Nature. Web publication

Craig, S. R., Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). Asian Medicines and Covid-19: An Introduction. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/asian-medicines-and-covid-19-an-introduction

Craig, S. R., Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). Responding to an Unfolding Pandemic: Asian Medicines and Covid-19. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/responding-to-an-unfolding-pandemic-asian-medicines-and-covid-19

Gerke, B. (2020). Sowa Rigpa in Lockdown: On the Potency and Politics of Prevention. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/sowa-rigpa-in-lockdown-on-the-potency-and-politics-of-prevention

Gerke, B. (2020). Pre-COVID-19: A visit to Dharamsala, India (February 2020). Web publication

Craig, S. R., Gerke, B., & Sheldon, V. (2020). Sowa Rigpa Humanitarianism: Local Logics of Care within a Global Politics of Compassion. Medical Anthropology Quarterly: international journal for the cultural and social analysis of health, 34(2), 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12561

Gerke, B. (2020). Thinking through complex webs of potency: Early Tibetan medical responses to the emerging coronavirus epidemic: Notes from a field visit to Dharamsala, India. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 7(1). http://doi.org/10.17157/mat.7.1.789

Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (Eds.) (2019). Materiality, Efficacy, and the Politics of Potent Substances across Asia. (1 ed.) Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.

Gerke, B. (2019). Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills. In W. A. McGrath (Ed.), Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bergen, 2016 (pp. 337–367 ). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004404441_011

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

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

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 Sept 2017 → 29 Sept 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 Sept 2016 → 4 Sept 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

Gerke, B.

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