The Mystery of Tukdam: Exploring Advanced Meditative States at Life’s End
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A live online broadcast with Doctors Tawni Tidwell and Tenzin Namdul of the Center for Healthy Minds and Center for Spirituality & Healing and host Alejandro Chaoul, Ph.D.
Join us for a special dialogue exploring tukdam, a rare meditative state described in Tibetan Buddhism and Bön. In tukdam, the body of a realized practitioner shows minimal signs of decomposition for days or even weeks after clinical death. This phenomenon is believed to reflect a profound mastery of meditation, merging consciousness with the Clear Light of the mind’s primordial nature.
This timely broadcast brings together leading researchers to illuminate the intersection of science and spirituality, following the recent passing of H.E. Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the revered, most-senior teacher of the Tibetan Bön tradition. His Eminence entered the tukdam meditative state upon his parinirvana on June 12, 2025, at his retreat residence in Kathmandu, Nepal; and remained in the state until the night of June 20.
