OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 58330

sky burial

Meanings (ES + gloss)
entierro celestial
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.
“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…
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