This is horrific and to think that Tibet claims to be one of the Holy Place. How can they claim it with the situation like this. Those dead bodies, either they committed crime or not does not deserved to be treated like a total garbage.

Maria, in buddhism after the soul leaves the body becomes a shell. So not much value is attached to it. also it is known as Jhator..which means Alms to the Bird which signifies compassion even to the extreme for all leaving creatures. It is mandatory that the birds eat everything and not ba small pat of body is left behind. If not anything it is of extreme purity and thought and ecological too. It is also extremely practical as firewood is scarce in Tibet and it is not possible to dig graves due to geology.

Further the attendants are deliberately asked to laugh and not be serious as not paying reverence to the empty shell allows the departed soul to move on and it helps others as well to come to terms with death where soul is more important than the body.

there is no question of crime here….this is the traditional tibetan burial which goes a long way in proving how these guys live compassion even in their deaths. Something like donating ones body for others. The Parsis floow the same rule too.

Unforunately the concept of Personal reward on judgement day in the abhrahamic religions has overwhemled our minds so much that we hold bodies in great refernce. But isn’t the concept of personal reward a tad selfish when confronted with such high eastern thoughts?

Very interesting from cultural perspective. For people who disagree, this is considered an honor by the diseased as well as the family. Do not judge on things you know nothing about. For some people it’s a horror that you eat a steak. Should you be prosecuted then? In western society there are people eaten by pets and flies because nobody knows they’re dead. Do something about that instead of looking for ‘horrible’ pictures and address complaints.

PS, if this was legal in Europe I would chose for it, if my body was of no use for science. Organ donation and education comes first. Lions or other predators would be fine too. I’ve eaten lots of corpses in my life myself, so eat it. No difference to me that bacterias or fungi go eat my remains or that its a higher animal. Cremation is an incredible waste. Seriously.

STEWPIG THANK YOU SO SO MUCH for these pictures and a video of Tibetan Sky Burial which is so enlightning to me who is a huge fan of religions in the world and traditions…I respect all good religions and I am glad I see things from all kinds of angles and perspectives and hope God will continue blessing me for not being judgmental to things…

To the ignorant people who think this is ‘horrific’, ‘despcabe’, or any shit like that, instead or using Internet only for spitting your ignorance all over the world wide web, do some reading and use it to learn that the world is more than your own little world, and you’re but another point of view:

“From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sky burial or ritual dissection was once a common funerary practice in Tibet wherein a human corpse is cut in specific locations and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements or the mahabhuta and animals – especially to birds of prey. The location of the sky burial preparation and place of execution are understood in the Vajrayana traditions as charnel grounds. In Tibet the practice is known as jhator (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་; Wylie: bya gtor), which literally means, “giving alms to the birds.”

The majority of Tibetans adhere to Buddhism, which teaches rebirth. 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. So the function of the sky burial is simply the disposal of the remains. In much of Tibet the ground is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and with fuel and timber scarce, a sky burial is often more practical than cremation.”

These people are way ahead of your petty ideas about humanity and its meaning. At least show some respect.

@dirtroad
It’s good to see some sense in all this non-sense

well this looks really weird to be rated “mouthful”…and +11 “tastes” )))

ITS HORRIBLE!