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

Gerke, B. (Autor*in), & Van der Valk, J. (Autor*in). (2022). Potent Substances project expo: Sowa Rigpa pandemic responses. Webpublikation

Gerke, B. (Autor*in), & Van der Valk, J. (Autor*in). (2022). Working with calcite: Potency as process. Webpublikation

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

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 (Hrsg.), 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 Aufl.) Heidelberg University Publishing. Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality Band 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. (Autor*in), Gerke, B. (Autor*in), & Van der Valk, J. (Autor*in). (2020). Asian Medicines, COVID-19 and the Politics of Science: An Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Nature. Webpublikation

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. (Autor*in). (2020). Pre-COVID-19: A visit to Dharamsala, India (February 2020). Webpublikation

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. (Hrsg.) (2019). Materiality, Efficacy, and the Politics of Potent Substances across Asia. (1 Aufl.) Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.

Gerke, B. (2019). Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills. in W. A. McGrath (Hrsg.), Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bergen, 2016 (S. 337–367 ). Brill. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library Band 43 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004404441_011

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

30 Nov. 2023 → 1 Dez. 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Taming the Poisonous

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

22 Nov. 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Tibetan Buddhist Longevity Rituals and Traditional Medicine in India

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

13 Nov. 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

How does ""nyen"" become a virus? Pre-modern Tibetan medical concepts and interpretations of non-human entities in the times of COVID-19.

Jan Van der Valk (Vortragende*r) & Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

28 Juli 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r), Jan Van der Valk (Vortragende*r) & William McGrath (Vortragende*r)

23 Juni 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

23 Juni 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r) & Jan Van der Valk (Vortragende*r)

21 Juni 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa and Buddhist Rituals

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r), Jan Van der Valk (Vortragende*r), Tawni Lynn Tidwell (Vortragende*r) & Calum Blaikie (Vortragende*r)

4 Nov. 2022

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

28 Okt. 2022

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r) & Calum Blaikie (Vortragende*r)

13 Juli 2022

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

6 Juli 2022

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

4 Juni 2022

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Precious and Potent: Tibetan Medical Pill Traditions

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

23 Mai 2022

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Public

Artisanship in Sowa Rigpa Medicine Making

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

16 Mai 2022

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

27 Juli 2021

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

21 Nov. 2019

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Artisanship and "Potency-in-Becoming"

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

14 Nov. 2019

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

21 Okt. 2019

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

11 Juli 2019

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r) & Jan Van der Valk (Vortragende*r)

31 Jan. 2019

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills: A Project Exhibition at ISTB

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

18 Jan. 2019

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

Sterben am Ganges: Hospize in Varanasi, Indien

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

10 Jan. 2019

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

Starting and running an NGO in India in my Twenties

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

4 Okt. 2018

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

Tod und Sterben in Indien

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

14 Juni 2018

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

The Globalization of Asian Medicines

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

14 Nov. 2017

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Precious Substances in Tibetan Pharmacopoeia: Exploring Tibetan Jewel Pill Ingredients

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

2 Nov. 2017

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

On the History and Manufacturing of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

26 Sep. 2017 → 29 Sep. 2017

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

11 Aug. 2017

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

8 Aug. 2017

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Entangled Efficacies in the Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

2 Aug. 2017

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

14 Feb. 2017

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

Mercury as a chülen in Tibetan traditions

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

21 Okt. 2016 → 22 Okt. 2016

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

Potent substances in Tibetan multicompound formulas: Anthropological considerations

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

1 Sep. 2016 → 4 Sep. 2016

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

16 Juni 2016 → 24 Juni 2016

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

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

Barbara Gerke (Vortragende*r)

13 Juni 2016

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Andere

Pandemie-Narrative von Tibet und dem Himalaya

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

1/12/22 → 30/11/25

Projekt: Forschungsförderung

Wirkungsvolle Substanzen in Sowa Rigpa und Buddhistischen Ritualen

Gerke, B. & Van der Valk, J.

11/06/18 → 10/09/24

Projekt: Forschungsförderung

Biografien Tibetischer Juwelenpillen (Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills)

Gerke, B.

11/05/15 → 31/01/18

Projekt: Forschungsförderung

Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde

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

barbara.gerke@univie.ac.at