Dictionary

sky burial en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • “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.” 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 423:

Forms

Hypernyms

excarnation

Relateds

aranga

Synonyms

wind burial

Translations (17)

pl pogrzeb powietrzny (funeral practice) · fa خاکسپاری آسمانی (funeral practice) · es entierro celestial (funeral practice) · cmn 天葬 (funeral practice) · af aasvoëlbegrafnis (funeral practice) · it sepoltura celeste (funeral practice) · fi taivashautaus (funeral practice) · yue 天葬 (funeral practice) · af lugbegrafnis (funeral practice) · de Himmelsbestattung (funeral practice) · nl luchtbegrafenis (funeral practice) · fr inhumation céleste (funeral practice) · nl hemelbegrafenis (funeral practice) · ja 鳥葬 (funeral practice) · he קבורת שמים (funeral practice) · bo བྱ་གཏོར (funeral practice) · id pemakaman langit (funeral practice)