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  1. Last 7 days
    1. I'll talk about some cases in a moment— there's very sudden decomposition when the "tukdam" ends. You can have people who have been in tukdam for 27 days and then on the— as one of the cases that we're gonna be publishing on soon— and on the 28th day there's like very dramatic decomposition. Just boom! It seems to happen.

      for - Buddhism - Tibetan - Thukdam - can end suddenly and dramatically - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

  2. Jul 2023
    1. The takeaway: A negative finding.
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        • the study could not find any detectable EEG signal in the deceased monks practicing Thukdam
        • Philosopher Evan Thompson commented that this does not disprove the existence of consciousness in the Thukdam state, merely that the instruments used may not have been where the critical signals reside
    2. The Thukdam Project Inside the first-ever scientific study of post-mortem meditation
      • Title
        • The strange case of the dead-but-not-dead Tibetan monks
      • Author
        • Robby Berman
      • Publication
      • Subject
        • The physiological study of Thukdam, the post death meditation of Tibetan Buddhism of monks who have died and display lack of decay (delayed decomposition) in the body many weeks after post mortem.
        • The study was headed by neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Healthy Minds.
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