Dr. Richard Davidson and other researchers at the Center for Healthy Minds created the Thukdam Project to continue research on meditative states and their affects on the body post-mortem.
Under the instruction of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Dr. Richard Davidson and other researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds created “The Thukdam Project” to continue long-term research on meditative states and their affects on the body post-mortem.
“Thukdam, or thugs dam, in Tibetan, is an honorific meaning “one engaged in meditation. Thukdam is said to be a relatively rare state experienced in its fullness only by spiritual masters…
…The Thukdam Project combines the brain power of neuroscientists, forensic anthropologists, doctors, psychologists, philosophers, and teams of monk-researchers in India. An inaugural report, which Dr. Richard Davidson describes as the first-ever scientific study into thukdam, was published this January in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.”
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