Mapping Tibet

I ask Jon if he has witnessed a sky burial. "I don't recall seeing cemeteries there," he replies.

Sky burial is a ritual dissection of the dead. A priest cuts the human corpse into small pieces and then places it on top of a mountain, exposing it to birds of prey.

Condemned as barbaric by the Hans, it is arguably an eco-friendly way of disposing a body. To these Buddhists, the lifeless body is only an empty vessel and the spirit has passed on into another realm.

© Jon Buglan. Tibet
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