Tukdam, Different Ontological Bodies, and Making Tibetan Deaths Visible
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry June 1, 2025 D. V. Coleman 2 citations
Unknown to science until recently, the postmortem state of tukdam has not yet been adequately explained in biomedical terms. One way to understand this phenomenon is through ideas of different cultural bodies and death processes, where tukdam emerges as a particular kind of Indo-Tibetan death. This article draws upon medical anthropological scholarship and literature in history of science and...