Although most people in the West prefer to cremate or bury their loved ones, monks Dodoka the monastery in Tibet prefer a unique spiritual approach. Their "graves" manage to also involve the vultures and a skull wall. It is actually a very poetic ceremony, but can be scary understandable when taken out of context.
The skull wall process begins with a funeral the sky. When a villager dies, the monks put their body in a sitting position and juniper burned to attract vultures.
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The vultures come and eat the body of all its flesh. The Dodoka is unique to other monasteries, instead of having all the bones, the skull is kept to fortify its walls.
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Between the west walls and south of the monastery, there are about 1,000 skulls stored.
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The origins of this tradition are not clear. Some believe that the family of a sky burial master was murdered in front of him ... and their skulls were left on the wall to ward off other murderers.
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Three other monasteries a once practiced the same form of burial, but during the Chinese cultural Revolution in the late 60s, most skulls were destroyed.
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others believe the living Buddha wanted the skulls there to remind those at the temple of the fragility of life, that one must spend little time on earth doing good.
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The wall is now protected by a government policy that preserves religious objects, and the monks took over the strange but beautiful practice.
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They can not celebrate traditional Halloween Tibet, but Dodoka monastery would definitely ready for it.
This tradition may seem strange or primitive, but the skulls walls are beautiful in their own way. After all, these monks are always honor the dead.
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