place for sky burial |
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This is place is for celestial burialï¼Åclose to Drolma La Pass, almost about 5600meters high.I photoed in the way of circumating around the Mt. Kailash on foot. Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds. It is a specific type of the general practice of excarnation. It is practiced in the Chinese provinces and autonomous regions of Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan and Inner Mongolia, as well as in Mongolia, Bhutan, Nepal, and parts of India such as Sikkim and Zanskar. |
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