St. Maria Maddalena procession, Atrani, Amalfi coast, Campania, Italy, Europe

St. Maria Maddalena procession, Atrani, Amalfi coast, Campania, Italy, Europe

Cemetery of Puerto Williams, Navarino Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile,South America

Road through Death Valley National Park, Funeral Mountains, California, United States of America, North America

Church at Grytviken where Shackleton's funeral was held, South Georgia, South Atlantic

Vultures, drigung. bodies what we most attached to, says of monks. Thats offering ones body carries greatest merit. believe that should benefit other beings at every stage of ones life. After completion of powa ceremony, corpse is traditionally offered to great vultures lammergeiers that frequent charnel grounds. Vultures descend on flayed corpse. Offering bodies to birds is same as reciting mantras. It brings merit benefit to dead person as well as to family friends bring here. While cutting up corpse i to keep a pure compassionate mind. would feel if someone felt cutting up your body. -tomdenla. Tibet

New Ireland Malagan funerary statue in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum, New York, USA. New Ireland is part of the Bismarck Archipelago, situated north of New Guinea, and has an estimated population of 100,000. The Dutch first encountered the island in 1616, and today New Ireland is a province of Papua New Guinea. Nineteen different languages are spoken on the island, and it is divided by a chain of mountains into three distinct regions: northern, central, and southeastern. The art of New Ireland traditionally centered on mortuary ceremonies and feasts to honor the dead. In northern New Ireland, the name given to these elaborate ceremonies is malagan, which is also the term used for the carved and painted sculptures associated with the ceremonies.

Cemetery Wurmlinger Kapelle Tuebingen Baden Wuerttemberg Germany

Desert landscape with Funeral Mountain