All activities
Exploring an anti-epidemic protective pill recipe in the fifteenth century Tibetan medical work "Relics of Countless Oral Instructions" by Zurkhar Nyamnyi Dorjé (1439-1475)
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Artisanship and Sowa Rigpa Medicine Making: Ethnographies from the Himalayas
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Synergies of potency: The production and consecration of protective pills during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bhutan
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Academic Writing in Sowa Rigpa: How to Summarize and Review Medical Literature
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Sowa Rigpa and End-of-Life Care: Cicely Saunders Hospice Ideas in the Context of Ladakh’s Hospice Movements
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
What Makes a Substance Potent? Researching and Writing about Potency (nus pa) in Medicine Making in Sowa Rigpa
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Chapter 1 of the project book Crafting Potency: Menjor, Materiality, Artisanship
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Causation and Protection during Pandemic Crises: Health, Prophecy, and More-Than-Human Relations in Pushar Village, Bhutan
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Why and when qualitative research methods make sense
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Placing the Himalaya in context: Ethnographic positionality, Buddhist longevity rituals, and Tibetan medical pandemic responses
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The multiple potencies of nine aromatic substances: The Tibetan anti-epidemic amulet formula Nakpo Gujor
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Taming the Poisonous
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tibetan Buddhist Longevity Rituals and Traditional Medicine in India
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
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)
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)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Smellscapes of Protection: NAKPO GUJOR, The 9-Compound Black Pill
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Precious and Potent: Tibetan Medical Pill Traditions
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Artisanship in Sowa Rigpa Medicine Making
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
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)
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)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Artisanship and "Potency-in-Becoming"
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
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)
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)
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)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills: A Project Exhibition at ISTB
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Sterben am Ganges: Hospize in Varanasi, Indien
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Starting and running an NGO in India in my Twenties
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Tod und Sterben in Indien
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The Globalization of Asian Medicines
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Precious Substances in Tibetan Pharmacopoeia: Exploring Tibetan Jewel Pill Ingredients
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
On the History and Manufacturing of Tibetan Precious Pills
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
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)
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)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Entangled Efficacies in the Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
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)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Mercury as a chülen in Tibetan traditions
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Potent substances in Tibetan multicompound formulas: Anthropological considerations
Barbara Gerke (Speaker)
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)
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)
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
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2B-O1-12