Sky burials!

[Disenthral]

I just found a book called Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet. Thinking it may have something to do with it i read the back and realized it was more about Tibet tradition and love, but seemed good so i got it anyways.

But I have always been fascinated by Sky Burials, it is one of the craziest things ever. and yet oddly peaceful in a way?

Sky burial or ritual dissection was once a common funerary practice in Tibet wherein a human corpse is cut in specific locations and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements or the mahabhuta and animals – especially to birds of prey.

Sky burial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Theres links on there of pictures from a burial..I didn't know if it would be ok to post that here ..... considering it has graphic pictures of bodies being cut up and eaten by birds.

 

[753C]

Nice.
Just put me in an old refrigerator box or something. Anything but vultures!!!

 

[Occlith]

I have heard of this funerary practice but I did not know it was so ritualized. I thought they just left the body exposed on a mountain or tall tower. I did not know about the disassembling or that they ground up the bones to feed hawks and crows. Fascinating 0_0