Lamas are buried in stupas if they are of certain stature. They say only the most virtuous among the commoners will be qualified for sky burials. If you are too poor to hire lamas to chant scriptures, then it will be a water burial. The evil will be buried in the earth, thinking that it is a straight way to be sent to hell.
In case you do not know what a sky burial is, its a burial process whereby the dead will be chopped to pieces and fed to the vultures. There is a saying if the vultures do not finish the meat, then the person was not virtuous enough when he was alive.
Due to urbanization, the younger tibetan generation has diverted away from such cultures. In other words, it is a vanishing culture.
06 July 2007
Sky Burial Site
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