This feature documentary explores a phenomenon that blurs life and death to an unprecedented degree. Most of us regard death as something clear-cut, fully explicable by medical science. Yet in what Tibetan Buddhists call "tukdam", advanced meditators die in a consciously controlled way, their bodies remaining lifelike for days or weeks after clinical death.
Though dead according to our biomedical standards, they often stay sitting upright in meditation; remarkably, their bodies remain fresh and lifelike, without signs of decay for days, sometimes weeks after clinical death. A group of leading scientists conduct groundbreaking research into the phenomenon, which challenges Western medical understanding of the line between life and death.
As the vital signs of the deceased in "tukdam" are measured and compared—both with other deceased individuals and with living meditators—the documentary expands from a mapping of the stages of death to an exploration of whether consciousness can be charted through measurement, and what consciousness actually is.
Questions regarding consciousness are addressed in very different ways within Western natural sciences compared to Buddhist philosophy. "Tukdam – Between Worlds" not only explores these differences but also examines the Tibetan culture of death.
Mingling scientific and spiritual perspectives, this documentary by the Finnish-Irish-American filmmaker-scholar Donagh Coleman is a groundbreaking exploration of a mystery which bridges life and death. Following unprecedented scientific research into tukdam and taking us into intimate death stories of Tibetan meditators, the film juxtaposes scientific and Tibetan perspectives as it tries to unravel the mystery of 'tukdam'.
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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 3 250 kb/s
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: E-AC3
Audio Bitrate: 224 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 1 h 31 min
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 2.21 GB
Source: WEB DL
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