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Re: Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial

Now that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Becoming One With Nature" I found that rather interesting.
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Not for me that rather sick
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Re: Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial

I have not wateched the vid (not yet anyway, I'm at work), but I think it's awesome.

Face it, you're in the mountains, and with your death you give back life by feeding birds, who ten take to the sky. It's both useful and poetic.

And instead of rotting and being eaten underground by maggots, you get to be eaten by flying animals (ok, their vultures, which kinda sucks) on a mountain.

I love this.
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11-04-2014, 01:26 AM
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That was awesome. One of the few times, with the help of man, animals complete the cycle of life.
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Well I suppose it's preferable to becoming a bloater, still I wouldn't fancy the idea of being devoured then shat all over the countryside of Tibet.
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Re: Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial

It's interesting that the vultures wait for them to be done skinning. It's like with any other food for them - they wait for the predator to kill, then they scavenge.
I wonder how long that took.
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Must've smelled pretty bad. But not to the hungry birds.
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Really amazing; the roghpurs (the guys who skin the corpses) will also then grind the bones and leftovers with tsampa (barley flour) and the vultures will take everything; nothing will be left. Makes ecological sense to me; ground is covered with permafrost, so no digging graves, no wood for a funeral pyre. I myself would love to be disposed of this way for sure. I would like to think my soul is soaring over the Tibetan Himalayas for sure
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Re: Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial

Im surprised they allowed filming? isnt it supposed to be bad Karma to film this? unless they allow it now, tourism trade I suupose.


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