Water Funeral-Just Temporary “Sails Away”

When mentioned death, the dense nationality color and its mysterious atmosphere will appear in your mind.Death is a horror and awe thing to most people in the world. But the Tibetan people think that funeral is the last imperative step of their life, a ceremony for people to lament the dead. we can say the folk culture are symbols of Tibetan mystery and dignity history.Today Explore Tibet Team, a professional Tibet travel agency, introduces a derivative of the celestial burial to you-Water Funeral.

For Tibetan water burial,there are two different connotations for different areas.In the Tibetan central area, water burial is only for the lower class people,such as beggars, those people without kin.But in in the Tibetan marginal area,water funeral is the only way.People who live in this area, water burial becomes the main way for them.Thus,for them,there is no difference between sky burial and water burial.They think both way are dedication to the deities.

In water funeral procession,Tibetan People carry the body to the riverside, dismember it and cast them to fast currency or not dismember it, just directly wrap the body with a white cloth. Tibetan people believe the soul separates out of the various “subtle elements.”Tibetan people think the dead is a god-hero who just sails away from his people and they will return again.

Are you scaring of it? Can you understand this special ceremony?Come to Tibet and learn more culture about it with Explore Tibet Team.