Flying With the Soul of the Dead

• 来源期刊: 中国西藏：英文版
• 学科: 历史
• 关键词: 西藏 民族文化 天葬 民族习俗
• 年，卷（期）: 2005,（2）
• 页码范围: 29-32
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: K892.22

摘要

In a Tibetan valley, before the sun rises, a corpse tied in a fetal position is laid on a large rock on a mountainside. Someone is burning a fire with cypress branches and Indian azalea branches, onto which zanba (masted highland barley) is sprinkled, and the smoke curls upwards.