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11-03-2009, 03:41 PM
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 ~Una dama~ Poster Rank:39 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 38,287 Mentioned: 53 Post(s) Quoted: 2764 Post(s)
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Female Corpse......
This Tibetan nun was hanged in a head-down position till her death by Chinese border security forces. She was involved in the Tibetan guerilla resistance movement and attempted to flee from persecution in Tibet. Her body was released and was underwent by sky burial after all.  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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11-03-2009, 04:00 PM
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 ★ CUNT ★ Poster Rank:134 Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 12,119 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 28 Post(s)
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Re: Female Corpse......
here ye go, During the ceremony, the deceased is carried out to the open mountainous areas where vultures are present. What the monks due is sever each body part of the dead body and toss them out to the vultures. It seems disrespectful and sacrilegious to most faiths because it looks as if the body is desecrated. But that's not the intention of the sky burial. Sky burial's intention is that when the vultures tear apart the flesh from the bones, your essence is part of the birds' essence. To them, you're still living but part of your body lives on in the birds. Also, the sky burial represents that you're giving back to life and to nature. Vultures are considered birds of prey and the sky burial is to honor those birds of prey. Instead of being buried in the ground, your body is carried up in the sky. Such as a ground burial is common in Christianity, a sky burial is common in Tibetan Buddhism. The terrain of Tibet has a lot to do of why the sky burial is practiced over burial and cremation. Tibet itself is at a high altitude where the terrain is hard, rocky, and mountainous. If you're not conditioned enough, you'll get sick from the lack of oxygen due to the air being thin. The terrain was very hard meaning you couldn't dig a hole and place a person's remains in. Resources such as timber and fuel are pretty scarce and hard to come by. Which is one of the factors that the Tibetans would rather use the sky burial. From what I saw in Kundun, the sky burial is one of the most simplistic burial ceremonies I had ever seen or heard about. It's very simplistic. No extravagant nor glamorous things are done. It's just simple, nothing more and nothing less, which is what nature |
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11-03-2009, 05:43 PM
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 Emotional Vampire Poster Rank:996 Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 699 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 10 Post(s)
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Re: Female Corpse......
the Choctaw Indians have a similar custom. The body is placed on a platform (like the Towers of Silence) for the birds to consume the flesh. Then a shamen with long fingernails, known as the Bonepicker, removes the remaining soft tissue and the bones are placed in a pottery vessel.
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