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Sky burial (disambiguation)

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Sky burial may refer to:

Funerary practices
  • Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered") a Tibetan open-air excarnation funerary practice
  • Dakhma (Persian: دخمه ; Avestan: lit.  “tower of silence”) a Zoroastrian open-air excarnation funerary practice
  • Space burial, a space-age funerary practice involving launching cremated remains into space
Other uses

See also