A book copy of Dagmar Schwerk’s book A Timely Message from the Cave is lying on handwoven Bhutanese textiles.

Publications

Schwerk, Dagmar, 2025. “Sound, Offering, and Liberation: Locating Éliane Radigue’s Trilogie de la Mort in Tibetan Buddhist Thought and History.” In Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue. New York: Blank Forms Editions, 2025. https://www.blankforms.org/publications/blank-forms-10-alien-roots-eliane-radigue.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2025. “48 Zhapdrung Ngawang Namgyel’s Sixteen I’s (ca. first half 17th Century).” Volume III Buddhist Asia, edited by Christoph Kleine, Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz and Hubert Seiwert, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 343-347. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111254081-049.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2025. “49 Bhutanese Legal Code from 1729.” Volume III Buddhist Asia, edited by Christoph Kleine, Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz and Hubert Seiwert, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 348-360. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111254081-050.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2021. “Drukpa Kagyü School (Bhutan).” In Database of Religious History. Vancouver: University of British Columbia. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0398123.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2020. A Timely Message from the Cave: The Mahāmudrā and Intellectual Agenda of dGe-bshes Brag-phug-pa dGe-’dun-rin-chen (1926–1997), the Sixty-Ninth rJe-mkhan-po of Bhutan. Indian and Tibetan Studies 11. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg. https://www.bibliaimpex.com/books/pdfs/9783945151105.pdf.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2019a. “Drawing Lines in a Maṇḍala: A Sketch of Boundaries Between Religion and Politics in Bhutan.” Working Paper Series of the CAHSS “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” 12. Leipzig: Leipzig University (openly peer-reviewed within the research group). https://doi.org/10.36730/2020.1.msbwbm.12.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2019b. “Buddhism and Politics in the Tibetan Cultural Area.” In Companion to the Study of Secularity, edited by CAHSS “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities.” Leipzig: Leipzig University (openly peer-reviewed within the research group). www.multiple-secularities.de/publications/companion/css_schwerk_tibetanculturalarea.pdf.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2016. “The Pointed Spear of a Siddha and its Commentaries: The ’Brug pa bka’ brgyud School in Defence of the Mahāmudrā Doctrine.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 37 (December): 352–73 (peer-reviewed, blind). https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_37_20.pdf. Reprint in Ancient Currents, New Traditions: Papers Presented at the Fourth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, edited by Franz Xaver Ehrhard, Jeannine Bischoff, Lewis Doney, Jörg Heimbel und Emilia Roza Sulek. edition tethys: wissenschaft 1. Potsdam: edition tethys, 2017.

Minor Writings

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2024. “Butter Lamps, Natural Disaster, and Climate Change in the Himalayas: Preserving and Accessing the Textual Literary Heritage of Bhutan Through the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library.” https://zenodo.org/records/11171006.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2022b. Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition, edited by Richard K. Payne. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2021. Book review. Journal of Global Buddhism 23 (1): 87–94. https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.jgb.2022.2331.

Schwerk, Dagmar. 2022a. UBC Department of Asian Studies News Blog. “More ‘inter-being’ less ‘instant gratification’: Integrating climate crisis content into an introductory class about Tibetan Buddhism at UBC.” April 12, 2022. https://asia.ubc.ca/news/integrating-climate-crisis-content-into-an-introductory-class-about-tibetan-buddhism-at-ubc/.