Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

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

Dancing competition of girls at Highland Games at Ballater Scotland

Dancing competition of girls at Highland Games at Ballater Scotland

Excursion boats at a landing stage on the Rio Negro river, Manaus, Brasil