ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2025
Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death.
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Abstract
The Tukdam Project directed by affective neuroscientist Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2013 has investigated Buddhist practitioners in India entering a Tibetan Buddhist post-death meditative state called tukdam (Tib., thugs dam), where the body demonstrates attenuated decomposition and presents an altered postmortem chronology process. Through a collaboration of Buddhist monastics, Tibetan medical physicians, and biomedical researchers as well as neuroscientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences led by Svyatoslav Medvedev since 2020 and India-based National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) Centre for Consciousness Studies since 2022, an international collaborative team has investigated the phenomenon from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural lens. Yet, despite the varied paradigms and intellectual lineages of the research teams, they have skillfully employed instruments of knowledge, markers of physiological processes, definitions of consciousness, and varied paradigms of ontological and epistemological realities in Euroamerican traditions of biomedicine and science and Indo-Tibetan traditions of Buddhism and medicine. This special collection explores perspectives from the anthropologists who have served as researchers, managers, and leaders of the Tukdam Project since its inception, striving to collaboratively integrate competing and synergistic investigative regimes in exploring the biocultural nexus of suspended life and embodied mind in meditated deaths of liberation.
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