thuk,” meaning mind, and “
m,” referring to the meditative state of
samadhi or concentration. As recently reported, scientific studies of this state are underway. Most recently in August, the Taiwan-based Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar Geshe Jampa Gyatso entered the state. Thereafter his body was observed by scientists from Academia Sinica, the pre-eminent academic research institution in Taiwan. From bod.asia
thukdam in his book
Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia University Press 2017):
Another case is Lama Putse, of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery near Boudhanath on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. He died March 31, 1998, and is reported to have remained in thukdam