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Definition of Sky burial
1. Noun. A traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sky Burial
Literary usage of Sky burial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cutting Off the Serpent's Head: Tightening Control in Tibet, 1994-1995 by Tibet Information Network, Robert Barnett, Human Rights Watch/Asia, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1996)
"When her body was prepared for traditional Tibetan sky burial, evidence of severe
anemia, internal adhesions around the lungs and ribs, a ruptured liver and ..."
2. Parnassus by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875)
"Whole legions sink, and, in an instant, lind When morn returns, beneath the clear
blue sky, Burial and death: look for them, and descry, A soundless waste, ..."
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