sky burial

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   a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures

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Questions about sky burial

What does sky burial mean?

sky burial means "a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures".

Is sky burial a common word?

sky burial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.