Sky burial is an efficient way to dispose of human remains, borne out of both spiritual and practical concerns. The first few days after a Tibetan dies, the body is kept at home, wrapped in a ...

Pictures: Tibetan sky burial where the dead are chopped up and fed to vultures Vultures start circling above the site, attracted by the fire of juniper and the smell of meat.

Officials insist the move will not threaten traditional Tibetan burial customs. "Sky burials are certainly not banned. We are just offering Tibetans more funeral options to ensure that the ...

In an effort to better protect and show more respect to the traditional Tibetan burial ritual of feeding dead bodies to vultures, China has imposed rigid rules to ban photography and media reports ...

High in the Tibetan Plateau, some 15,000 feet above sea ... lies evidence of a civilization predating Buddhism -- ruins of citadels and burial grounds weathered by centuries of exposure to the ...

Southwest China's plateau region of Tibet will spend 490 million yuan ($75 million) over the next five years on the repair and protection of sky burial sites, a traditional Tibetan funeral ...

Sky Burial follows the ritual of "jha-tor", the giving of alms to birds in a northern Tibetan monastery - where the bodies of the dead are offered to the vultures as a final act of kindness to ...