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6 6 Custom and Culture
Unit
Getting started
Look at the pictures and talk about them.
Reading I
Answer these questions.
a. Describe death rituals in your culture.
b. Why do you think it is important?
Sky Burials
Sky Burials are traditional custom in Tibetan Buddhism to say farewell to their
dead. These days, outsiders are mostly forbidden from witnessing them.
I had heard of Tibetan Sky Burials with a mixture of horror and fascination.
To put it bluntly, a dead body is chopped up into pieces and fed to waiting
vultures.
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