sky burial
English edit
Noun edit
sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)
- A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.
- Synonym: wind burial
- Hypernym: excarnation
- 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 423:
- “A sky burial? What’s that?”
“Just what it says. You bury them in the sky. They do it in Tibet and places. You bring the dead body to a mountain and leave it so they can be out in the open until they're not.”
Translations edit
funeral practice
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