Burials in Tibet. NOT FOR SENSITIVE SOULS! (61 photos)

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jeeeeeeezzzz!!!!

Please stop with this sort of crap and the girls with dog shit too.

Totally beneath this site and gross.

I disagree with Roswel. Posts like this are extremely interesting. Keep up the good work.

haha

I agree keep it up …always learn and expand your mind…………

I would love to know why this practice is done?

HAHA WTF!

WTF?!?!? just.... wtf?!?!

If you don't like, get the fuckout. Nobody is taking a gun to your head to look at the photos

这世界上真有这种事，

In the west it is ashes to ashes,,,,,,,dust to dust,,,,,,,looks like the Tibetans have their own slant on it,,,,,,,,,,,

IYFZZZ,

This is called the sky burial in Tibet. Since it is believe that a person re-incarnates after dying the body serves no real purpose. There is no need to preserve the body, as it is now an empty vessel. Birds may eat it, or nature may let it decompose. The body is cut in specific places, and left on a mountain top, exposing it to the elements. According to Buddhist teaching, this makes it easier for the soul of the deceased to move on from the uncertain plane between life and death onto the next life. So as barbaric as this might look, there is an actual purpose to this.

also... up in tibet the ground's rather hard, so sky burial is more practical.

jacie pierdole

I don't want to be embalmed and buried in a box only to become some disgusting coffin liquor. I would much rather be eaten by vultures.

I really do not understand negative feelings towards this. I have to ask, why is this strange, why relations like "wtf" etc. Is it more natural to embalm someone, stick them in a box, and toss them in the ground? This is far better for the environment, the birds get a meal, and do what they do naturally. I would be happy to have this done.

why are there so many choices for dumb smiley faces?

pretty cool practice

What a waste of great knee cartilage.

Quite a bit hardcore burials they have..

this is awesome, what a great post! I wish I could be memorialized this way. The perfect Buddhist burial: no creatures are harmed (digging kills worms and such), but are in fact benefited by your death (the vultures).

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

Interesting.

They do this as a going completely back to nature thing.

actually very civilized i wish americans were so in touch with nature This is REAL and more god-like then any christian burial

In the US, there are some places where a person can be legally buried simply wrapped in a sheet or blanket, without embalming, and with a simple marker or tree to mark the grave. Is a sky burial legal anywhere in the US?

It's just meat. What's the problem?

OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

If this is a buddhist burial, why would they tie up a body like that?

Interesting

massaaa!

I wonder why he is tied too, and the marks in his neck, maybe executed?

wierd

HE WAS TIED LIKE THAT FOR EASY TRANSPORTATION... NO TORTURING OR MURDER JUST AN EMPTY VESSEL BEING RECYCLED. LESS RESPECT FOR THE DEAD AND MORE FOR THE LIVING, A MANTRA THAT WESTERN PEOPLE COULD USE.

I agree with Matt...
This is interesting, it's a side of a culture that is different then yours and that's no reason for it to be "beneath" anything... you need to be less ignorant and closeminded

Hey, what better way to eat part of your human buddy later on? Birds eat your buddy, you eat the birds which ate your buddy! Kickass!

i dont mind being eaten like this.
and for the stupid fucks that keep on puting stupid smile face with machine guns.... FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOM!

works for me.. so did they mix the brain matter with the chopped up bones fo the birds can eat that as well?