Sky Burials - Text and the Exercise of Grade - 9 Compulsory English Book

Sky Burials - Reading Text Sky Burial is a traditional custom in Tibetan Buddhism to farewell the dead. These days, outsiders are mostly forbidden from witnessing them. I had heard of Tibetan Sky Burials with a mixture of horror and fascination. To put it bluntly, a dead body is chopped up into pieces and fed to waiting vultures. So, we arrived at a very isolated and traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Tagong in North Eastern Sichuan. I thought, "let's just look at the site where it happens". We'd been told that foreigners were not allowed to experience the secret ritual anyway.  Our driver directed us up to the top of the mountain where the burials take place. It was surrounded by a sea of Tibetan prayer flags and you could just make out a kind of stone slab. So we hiked up there. Upon arriving, we could hear Tibetan nuns chanting. "How lovely?" I thought. Then I turned and saw about 100 vultures sitting on the hill, waiting and then, what looked lik…