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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Tibetan sky burial

Burial, the deceased's body is to feed the eagle. After eating eagle into the sky, heaven Tibetans think that the deceased well. Funeral held in the celestial burial ground, around a fixed location. After death, the mortuary for several days, please select day’s monks chanting mourners. Funeral general early, there is first hand the body sent to the celestial burial incense Gong Sheen, eagle see fireworks and gathered around the celestial burial ground. Celestial burial clothes and then stripped the body, mutilated bodies at a certain program, meaty bones stripped. Broken bones, stone and mixed with roasted barley, meat cut into small pieces aside. Eagle with a whistle to the last call, press the bone, were fed meat and sequence, until swallowed up twice. Tibetan sky burial is ancient and unique customs, but also most of the burial method used by Tibetans. Burial experienced a form of historical change, according to Tibetan historical records, in the ancient "seven-cheep" when kings died a "grip-day rope ascending to heaven," "loss, such as rainbow, without a corpse." This understanding was related with the Tibetans, when Tibetans believe that their ancestors came from heaven and die from death. Tibetan sky burial known as the "vertical Jive Du wow" means "off (dead) to the burial site"; also known as "just more" meaning "to feed the eagle." In this paper, "just" is a specialized eating dead meat vultures, that the "Ha Kwai."