What does sky burial mean?

sky burial

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

"“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 the open until they're not.”"

sky burials (plural)

aranga

wind burial

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