The funeral rites of Tibetan sky burial are pretty metal at first glance. The ancient tradition begins with a monk lighting incense and chanting ritual mantras around the corpse. Then come the ...

Sky Burial follows the ritual of "jha-tor", the giving of alms to birds in a northern Tibetan monastery - where the bodies of the dead are offered to the vultures as a final act of kindness to living ...

Tibet Autonomous Region will make a law to better protect sky burials, a traditional ritual that has drawn controversy after guides began leading tour groups to view the ceremony. A "sky burial" place ...

In the world of Wayne Haag’s Ankaris, ship breakers realize that the vehicles they dismantle may have once been sentient beings, so they treat their mechanical charges as they would human bodies, ...