| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 91 min.)) : sound, color |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Donagh Coleman. |
| Cast |
Tenzin Gyatso. |
| Summary |
This feature documentary explores a phenomenon that blurs life and death to an unprecedented degree. In what Tibetan Buddhists call 'tukdam', advanced meditators die in a consciously controlled manner. 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. Following ground-breaking 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'. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Meditation -- Buddhism.
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Consciousness.
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Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Death -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Dead.
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Thanatology.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Coleman, Donagh, 1975- film director, screenwriter, film producer.
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Aho, Kaarle, film producer.
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O'Neill, Martha (Film producer), film producer.
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Rünk, Pille, film producer.
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Strugalla, Mirjam, film editor.
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Lill, Märt-Matis, composer (expression)
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| Music No. |
MWT15726658 |
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