Most Tibetans are Buddhists. Buddhists believe in rebirth. They don't need to keep the body when it dies, as it is no longer important. When you die they chop up the body into pieces. Then feed the pieces to the vultures. So the idea of the sky burial is simply to dispose of the body. Most of Tibet is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and fuel and timber are very hard to find, so a sky burial is more practical than cremation.
From Taiga
Hello Taiga, what you have just told us makes good sense. Digging a grave is impossible and there is not much fuel or wood to have a cremation. The only alternative is to have a sky burial. I think that this method of burial is very clever. I do not think that I would like to see the vultures eating the body pieces. Love to you from nana and koro
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