What is celestial burial?

Celestial burial is a traditional way of burial for Tibetans. After death, the body is taken to a designated place for vultures (or other birds and mammals) to swallow. The core of celestial burial is the immortality of the soul and the cycle.

Death is only the separation of the immortal soul from the old body, and it is a different transformation in different dimensions. Tibetans admire celestial burial, and think that feeding vultures with "skin" is the noblest charity, which embodies the highest realm of Mahayana Buddhism paramita-laying down one's life.

Extended data:

Masai people living in eastern Africa, after their death, washed the whole body of the deceased with water, carefully coated it with a layer of cream and placed it in the center of the house. Relatives knelt silently around the body for a day, and then the elders in the village led the way. Everyone carried the bodies to the wilderness, where they were swallowed by wild animals and pecked by birds.

This shows that the Masai people will not be attached to this land even if they die. For another example, there are still celestial burial ceremonies among Parsis in India. Among the Parsis, "most members still believe in Zoroastrianism and maintain their original customs". The existing Zoroastrianism classic Zend-Areta records that Zoroastrianism "wants to put the dead on the top of the mountain where birds and animals haunt and let them eat their beaks".