Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered") is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose...

Sky Burial is a 2004 book by Xue Xinran, her second. Xue is a British-Chinese journalist who writes for The Guardian. Sky Burial was listed in the Los...

Look up sky burial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sky burial is a Tibetan open-air excarnation funerary practice. Sky burial may also refer to:...

Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects....

used more productively. Alternatives to ground burials include burial in a coral reef, sky burial, burial at sea, hybrid cemeteries and human composting...

of excarnation include "sky burials" in parts of Asia, the Zoroastrian "Tower of Silence", and Native American "tree burials". Excarnation is practiced...

made from human bone found by tantrics at sky burial sites. The charnel ground, an ancient Tibetan burial custom, is distinctly different from the customs...

mummification, a type of embalming, practiced by the Ancient Egyptians; and the sky burial and a similar method of disposal called Tower of Silence practiced by...

involve either the destruction of the body (for example, by cremation, sky burial, decomposition, disintegration or dissolution) or its preservation (for...

burial and a scaffold – used by a number of Indians in North America Sky burial Tower of Silence Disposal of human corpses Burial at sea "Tree burial...