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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

• Title
  • The Thukdam Project Inside the first-ever scientific study of post-mortem meditation
• Author
  • Daniel Burke
• Publication
  • Tricycle
  • https://tricycle.org/article/thukdam-project/

• Title
  • The strange case of the dead-but-not-dead Tibetan monks
• Author
  • Robby Berman
• Publication
  • The Big Think (website)
  • https://bigthink.com/health/thukdam-study/
• 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.
  • Study Title
    • No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity After Clinical Declaration of Death Among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in Apparent Tukdam, a Putative Postmortem Meditation State
    • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7876463/