When we think of meditation, we often picture someone sitting as still as a statue, said Venerable Hui Cheng, a monk at Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple. “We are inspired to not hold onto things that are inherently fluid and transient in nature,” said Venerable Hui Cheng, who works with the temple’s department of social education and outreach. Venerable …
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When 90-year-old Chokpa Tenzin died in her Bengaluru home in September, her family members called an ambulance and the crematorium. As Tibetans, the family had heard about the post-death meditative state of thukdam—when highly-realised Tibetan monks die in a consciously controlled manner through meditation—but hadn’t witnessed the phenomenon. In July this year, Geshe Jampa Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar in …
