Volume 39, Number 1 (2019)
Research Articles
Deadly Predators and Virtuous Buddhists: Dog Population Control and the Politics of Ethics in Ladakh
Karine Gagné
Subjective Well-Being in Two Himalayan Communities, Post Road Development
Michelle U. Grocke, Kimber Haddix McKay, and Thomas Foor
The Soteriological Context of a Tibetan Oracle
Katarina Turpeinen
Introduction | Approaching Potent Substances in Medicine and Ritual across Asia
Barbara Gerke and Jan M. A. van der Valk
Iron Tonics: Tracing the Development from Classical to Iatrochemical Formulations in Ayurveda
Dagmar Wujastyk
Garuda 5 (khyung lnga): Ecologies of Potency and the Poison-Medicine Spectrum of Sowa Rigpa’s Renowned ‘Black Aconite’ Formula
Jan M. A. van der Valk
Conceptions of Potency, Purity, and Synergy-by-Design: Toward Developing a Sowa Rigpa Medical Theory-based Approach to Pharmaceutical Research
Tawni L. Tidwell and James H. Nettles
Medicinal Mandala: Potency in Spatiality
Anna Sehnalova
Potency by Name? ‘Medicine Buddha Plant’ and Other Herbs in the Japanese Scroll of Equine Medicine (Ba’i sōshi emaki, 1267)
Katja Triplett
Conference Reports
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Robert E. Beazley
Himalayan Studies and Interdisciplinarity Workshop
Priyanka Chatterjee
Perspectives
Challenging the Biomedical Notion of ‘Active Substance’: The Botanical Plasticity of Tibetan Medical Formulas
Herbert Schwabl and Jan M. A. van der Valk
Afterthoughts | Complexities of Potency
Vivienne Lo
Artwork
Gallery | Potent Substances in a Thirteenth Century Japanese Scroll Painting
Katja Triplett, Barbara Gerke, and Jan M. A. van der Valk
Reviews
Review of The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment by Dan Smyer Yü.
Robert E. Beazley
Review of Crossing the Border to India: Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal by Jeevan R. Sharma.
Tristan Bruslé
Review of The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism: Making Place in the Indian Himalayas by Anja Wagner.
Stephen Christopher
Review of Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz.
Christoph Emmrich
Review of Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi by Liu Jianqiang, translated by Ian Rowen, Cyrus K. Hui, and Emily Yeh.
Alexander R. O’Neill
Review of Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia by Jinah Kim.
Alexander James O’Neill
Review of Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice of Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India by Sarah Besky.
Debarati Sen
Review of Sucāruvādadeśika: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Theodore Riccardi edited by Todd Lewis and Bruce McCoy Owens.
Bal Gopal Shrestha
Other
Obituary | Pradyumna Prasad Karan (1930–2018)
Rajiv R. Thakur
