Decedent as Epistemic Object: Ontologies, technologies, and enaction in a collaborative research program

Since 2012, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds have worked with the Tibetan Medical and Astrological College and Delek Allopathic Hospital in Dharamsala, India to conduct research on a phenomenon known as tukdam (Tib., thugs dam), a unique meditative state which Tibetan Buddhist believe can be achieved at the moment of death.