Sky Burial (Noun)
Meaning
A traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The Tibetan family had to travel to a remote location to perform the traditional sky burial, a ritual that was both sacred and eerie.
- In the Tibetan Plateau, the sky burial is a common practice, where the deceased is left on a mountaintop to be consumed by vultures.
- The sky burial was a poignant reminder of the transience of life, as the vultures swooped down to claim the body.
- The Tibetan monk oversaw the sky burial, chanting prayers as the vultures circled above, waiting for the signal to descend.
- In the sky burial, the body is not cremated or buried, but rather given back to nature, a symbol of the cycle of life and death.