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.
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