[Buddha-l] [Photographs of] Tibetan Sky Burial

[jkirk]

Forwarded from the The Asian Studies WWW Monitor.
Matthew Ciolek (Monitor owner) published this amazing website with photos of 
a Tibetan sky burial, where the family invited the photographer to witness 
everything and to take the photos.

The Parsis also practice sky burial, differently arranged, but lately in 
Mumbai the necesary vultures are dying out, people think from environmental 
poisoning of some kind.
Joanna K.
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> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Mar 2006, Vol. 13, No. 4 (247)
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> 14 Mar 2006
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> Tibetan Sky Burial in China
>
> Rotem Eldar, www.travelblog.org, US
>
> Supplied note:
> "Hello I have witnessed a burial [in April 2005, in Litang, Eastern 
> Tibet - ed.] and even got permission to take pictures and join the family. 
> Have a look here [at the URL below]. Will be more than happy if you add 
> this link to your article [i.e. Dr Mondo Secter's 1999 field note in 
> www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/TibPages/tib-burial.html - ed.] [...] Will be 
> also happy to share some more photos and movie clips I have which are 
> harder to watch, if needed. Thanks, rotem."
>
> URL http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-7890.html
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> Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time 
> of this abstract]
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> Link reported by: Rotem Eldar (eldar_rotem--at--yahoo.com)
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