Sky Burial: Tibetan Burial Ritual

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 living beings.

At the Drigung Monastery lamas chant to call the consciousness from the body. Juniper incense is burned to summon the vultures. Special body breakers, or "rogyapas", unwrap the bodies and cut away the flesh. The bones are crushed and mixed with tsampa, roasted barley flour. The entire body is consumed by the birds, assuring the ascent of the soul.

The sky, or the universe, is where the sacred world lies. To merge with the sky after death is a holy event, one that replaces the sufferings of this world with peace.

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[xtremixt1]

Tibetans seem interesting people with interesting culture... they don't bother other people and they don't push their culture on others so China should let Tibet alone and stop bothering them.

[FalunGongIsAmazing]

@xihangyang

Estimates of people being killed in the Tienanmen Square Massacre are much higher than 100. People didn't just get MURDERED in Tienanmen Square.

You can watch "The Tank Man" (in 8 parts) and listen to eye witnesses talking about the MASSACRE in Beijing.

FREE Tibet and China

[xtremixt1]

@Sonyhamster can't compare China's situation to the West.

[Sonyhamster]

@xtremixt1 Would the UK give up Scotland or Wales? Would the USA give up each state and let them become independent?

And where have you read that China is hassling the Tibetans? In reality, it is a fight in the political arena, not personally with the people.

[MrOdsplut]

that poem was amazing

[MrPleasethink]

@xihangyang

1)why is liu xiaobo in prison?

2)why did a lot of bad things happen in the past? why can't we learn from them and not just dwell on them?

3)i don't think he recieved it FOR torturing people.

4)same here, i thought he recieved it for spreading the word of peace and non-violence. atleast he's not imprisoning and torturing those people for practicing their faith.

[Orayn]

This is pretty cool. I like the idea of feeding birds after I'm dead, rather than being in a wooden box six feet underground.

[FreeTibetandChina]

@xihangyang

Why should Tibetans have to learn Chinese in their own country of Tibet to get a decent job ??

[Chichiri520]

Amazing! Just as we cannot stay in our mother's wombs forever, after 9 months we have to come out. Just so, this earth is our womb. We are waiting to "come out" of this womb in the earth in order to move on to the next life. If one thinks about it, even by just a bit, it helps one to value life and to watch for the deeds done in this life.

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@xihangyang

HH Dalai Lama's Advice Concerning Dolgyal (Shugden)

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Following long and careful investigations, HH Dalai Lama strongly discourages Tibetan Buddhists from propitiating the fierce spirit known as Dolgyal (Shugden).

Although he once practised Dolgyal propitiation himself, His Holiness renounced the practice in 1975 after discovering the profound historical, social and religious problems associated with it.

go to

dalailama. com/messages/dolgyal-shugden (remove space)

for more info

[xihangyang]

@FalunGongIsAmazing why is li shoa boa receive a nobel price award and not juilan assant of wikileak.

why not all those communnist that been murder and in prison and lost there job by the american goverment in the '50.

never receive a nobel price.

why did obama receice a nobel price award for using torture in quatanaman bay in cuba.

the torture did kill osama bin laden.

why did daila lama receive a nobel price award for his prosecution of the Dorje Shugden practise.