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This is the most famous form of "gruesome" burial in the world. Instead of burying the dead in the ground, the Tibetans take their bodies to the mountains to prey on starving vultures. Tibetans believe that after death, the form that people bear is only a corpse and the vulture is the mascot here. Performing the funeral ritual is considered as the Buddha Tathagata Buddha's body to raise tigers to avoid harming other living beings in the world.
This form of burial was born partly from the natural conditions in Tibet. This is a cold high mountainous region so the burial form under the icy hard rock layer is not feasible. Cremation was even more difficult because wood and fuel were scarce.