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Tukdam (Tibetan: ཐུགས་དམ་) is a meditative practice, practiced in the post-mortem period of a Buddhist master. In that time they are absorbed in 'Clear Light Stage', a process of inner dissolution of the five elements and consciousness back into the Primordial Light. [1] [2]
Description
As Sogyal Rinpoche describes it in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying:
A realized practitioner continues to abide by the recognition of the nature of mind at the moment of death, and awakens into the Ground Luminosity when it manifests. He or she may even remain in that state for a number of days. Some practitioners and masters die sitting upright in that state for a number of days. Some practitioners and masters die sitting upright in meditation posture, and others in the "posture of the sleeping lion". Besides their perfect poise, there will be other signs that show they are resting in the state of the Ground Luminosity: There is still a certain color and glow in their face, the nose does not sink inward, the skin remains soft and flexible, the body does not become stiff, the eyes are said to keep a soft and compassionate glow, and there is still a warmth at the heart. Great care is taken that the master’s body is not touched, and silence is maintained until he or she has arisen from this state of meditation. [3]
See also
References
- ^ "Crossing Over: How Science Is Redefining Life and Death". National Geographic. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ "Former Ganden Tripa Stays on 'Thukdam' for 18 Days". Phayul.com. 7 October 2008. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018.
- ^ Sogyal Rinpoche (2002), p. 266.
Works cited
- Sogyal Rinpoche (2002). The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-250834-2.
Further reading
- Bärlocher, D. (1982). Testimonies of Tibetan Tulkus: A Research Among Reincarnate Buddhist Masters in Exile. Tibet-Institute. ISBN 978-3-7206-0009-5.
- Gouin, M. (2012). "Immediately After Death". Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist Funerary Practices. Taylor & Francis. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-136-95918-9.
- Hale, Tom (30 September 2021). "Scientists Look At The Strange "Half-Dead" State Of Meditating Buddhist Monks". IFLScience. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- Jackson, R. R. (2022). Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World. Shambhala. ISBN 978-0-8348-4424-7.
- Prude, Alyson (2019). "Death in Tibetan Buddhism". In Knepper, Timothy D.; Bregman, Lucy; Gottschalk, Mary (eds.). Death and Dying: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Springer International Publishing. pp. 125–142. ISBN 978-3-030-19300-3.
- Thompson, Evan (2014). Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-53831-2.
- Tidwell, T. L. (2024). "Life in suspension with death: Biocultural ontologies, perceptual cues, and biomarkers for the tibetan tukdam postmortem meditative state". Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09844-2. PMID 38393648.
- Zivkovic, T. (2013). Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-Between Bodies. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-134-59369-9.
External links
- The Field Study of Long-term Meditation Practitioners and the Tukdam Post-death Meditative State at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- In depth discussion with Beri Sonam Wangchuk about meditative state of Thugdam on YouTube
- Tukdam: Spiritual Practice at the University of Virginia Mandala Collection
- Donagh Coleman. "Presence in Death". The Rubin.
- Tukdam: Between Worlds at IMDb
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