Tukdam
Tukdam (Wyl. thugs dam) is an Template:Wiki term for meditative practice and Template:Wiki that is frequently used to refer to the period following the death of a great master, during which time they are absorbed in Template:Wiki.
As Sogyal Rinpoche describes it in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying:
A realized practitioner continues to abide by the Template:Wiki of the nature of mind at the moment of death, and awakens into the Ground Template:Wiki when it manifests.
He or she may even remain in that state for a number of days.
Some practitioners and masters die sitting upright in that state for a number of days.
Some practitioners and masters die sitting upright in meditation posture, and others in the “posture of the sleeping lion.”
Besides their Template:Wiki poise, there will be other signs that show they are resting in the state of the Ground Luminosity:
There is still a certain Template:Wiki and glow in their face, the Template:Wiki does not sink inward, the Template:Wiki remains soft and flexible, the body does not become stiff, the eyes are said to keep a soft and compassionate glow, and there is still a warmth at the heart.
Great care is taken that the master’s Template:Wiki is not touched, and silence is maintained until he or she has arisen from this state of meditation.