The most bizarre ritual – sky burials in Tibet

Very few outsiders rarely observe this first hand. In Tibet, it was once a common funeral custom to dissect the body and place the pieces on a mountaintop. As most Tibetans follow Buddhist traditions, the goal is to provide resources to the world, even after death – offering the “unneeded” body to vultures. However,

China came in and stopped sky burials. Since the 1980s, however, it is still possible to observe a jhator with the permission of the family.