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Encyclopedia > Tibetan sky burial

Tibetan sky burial is a form of burial practiced in Tibet. Monks chant around the body that is about to be disassembled. The butcher chops off the extremeties and strips the flesh to the bone. Then the bones are crushed to fragments for vultures to devour. Eventually, nothing is left of the body. This act of giving one's body is the last generous act of the deceased to living beings. Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seafrom an edition with drawings by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. ... Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: Xīzàng; older spelling Thibet) is a region and former independent country in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... A Roman Catholic monk A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. ... A Nubian Vulture Vultures are scavenging birds, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals. ...


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