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04-02-2022, 02:20 AM
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Re: Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial
How did they film this? I thought Tibet was closed off to foreigners for some time now. Perhaps, this was from many years ago before the restrictions were imposed.
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04-03-2022, 01:47 AM
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Re: Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial
"Burial" really? We need to change the definition of the word looking at this.. "Cremation" is it? No... this doesn't fit (even remotely) into any "civilized" human practices to bid farewell to their deceased across the world. The "Zoroastrian" faith also known as "Parsi" just leave their dead in a raised structure to be fed by vultures or whatever but they don't do this public autopsy |
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04-04-2022, 01:03 AM
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Re: Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial
And it's normal to drain the deceased of blood, replace it with a mixture of formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde or in some cases phenol, and then put them on display for a bit before placing them into the ground* or burning them? * In many Western nations, the deceased are placed within burial vaults, not just buried in the ground. These vaults are to prevent the soil from collapsing in as the coffin breaks down...but also serve to keep the remains from fully decomposing. In Tibet, as well as other mountainous nations, the ground is generally solid rock, with only a thin topsoil present. They also don't have a great deal of spare fuel sources for fires, and things like wood, charcoal, and even LNG is hard to come by, and not to be wasted on something like cremation outside of there being a medical reason to halt a pathogen or the like. Cairns are sometimes used, but once again, the land isn't exactly bountiful, and having graves, and the decomposing bodies they contain are a concern for public health, as well as attracting worse scavengers than vultures. This method of burial is also in keeping with the central Buddhist belief of impermanence. At the end of the process, there is nothing physical left of the deceased. Honestly, the practice of many cultures to visit grave sites for years, have long one-sided conversations with the deceased, and at times, building their lives around the memory of the dead is also pretty weird. |
