sky burial

English

Noun

sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)

1. A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.

   Synonym: wind burial

   Hypernym: excarnation

   • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 423:

     “A sky burial? What’s that?”
     “Just what it says. You bury them in the sky. They do it in Tibet and places. You bring the dead body to a mountain and leave it so they can be out in the open until they're not.”

Translations

funeral practice

• Afrikaans: aasvoëlbegrafnis, lugbegrafnis
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天葬 (tin¹ zong³)

  Mandarin: 天葬 (zh) (tiānzàng)

• Dutch: luchtbegrafenis, hemelbegrafenis
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: taivashautaus
• French: inhumation céleste f
• German: Himmelsbestattung f
• Hebrew: קבורת שמים
• Indonesian: pemakaman langit
• Italian: sepoltura celeste f
• Japanese: 鳥葬 (ja)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: خاکسپاری آسمانی
• Polish: pogrzeb powietrzny m
• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: entierro celestial m
• Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར (bya gtor)

See also

• aranga