After a long time, seeing no response, the three burly lamas were full of suspicion, so they held up the buttery wind lamp and walked over. The two monsters held the sharp knife in their hands, a little nervous.

The three big lamas found a colorful poisonous snake beside the skeleton wall, holding its triangular head and hissing at them, and turned around in disappointment. One of the big lamas in red with a big waist picked up the hideous skull and put it back to the original place of the skeleton wall.

The three of them yawned all over the sky, stretched their long and long waists, muttered and went back to the house to sleep.

At this time, the two monsters who were hiding behind the skeleton wall like gods could not help but burst into cold sweat!

Soon the second monster saw that the butter lights in the room were gone, and soon the lamas snored like thunder.

The two monsters were like weasels, quietly wandering around the corners of the yard, looking for the entrance to the skeleton wall, but found nothing.

Finally, the two monsters returned and found the entrance of the underground palace three meters away from the shade of the skeleton wall. They were covered by an inconspicuous stone slab, so disguised that it was hard to see that it was the entrance of the underground palace.

This famous skull wall, which is a typical product of Tibetan sky burial and is also a traditional funeral method for ethnic minorities such as Mongolians. It is like burial and sand burial, cremation and double burial, water burial and wind burial, tree burial and cave burial and secret burial, all of which bring the corpses back to nature.

They are all pious beliefs, a form of expression of nostalgia and mourning for the dead, and their essence is nothing more than a social and cultural phenomenon. Therefore, different historical periods, different countries and regions, different ethnic groups and even different social classes will form different funeral methods.

The difference is that the Mongolian sky burial was to feed the corpses to the hungry wolf, while the Tibetans put the corpses on the rooftop, let the eagle eat them, and take the corpses to the sky ascend to the samsara, believing that this would bring the souls of the deceased to the holy kingdom of heaven above the Himalayas.

As early as the famous "Zhou Yi? Xici Zhuan", there was a detailed record of "In ancient times, those who buried thick clothes with firewood, and those who buried the wilderness should not be sealed or trees."

There are also Masai people living in eastern Africa. After they die, they washed the dead body with clean water, and then carefully applied a layer of good pure cream, "but without the cream of germ fat and melamine."

Then, he placed it solemnly in the center of the house, and all the relatives knelt silently around the body, made a whole day of devout prayer to save the dead.

Then, led by the respected village elders, everyone carried the body to the wilderness, put the body there, allowing wild beasts to eat and birds to peck, which shows the national beliefs and habits of the Masai people who died and became connected to different lands.

As early as the ancient barbaric era, people treated corpses in a very rough and simple way, and were generally random, either abandoned in the fields or threw them into caves and left to rot, or beasts rush to snatch them from the enemy.

The great Tibetan historical documents record that the Tibetan sacred sky burial customs can be traced back to before the seventh century AD.

The famous Bon religion in ancient times classified the world into three parts: heaven, earth, and underground, among which the gods occupy an extremely important position. The first generation of Tubo Zamp and the six later Zamps were all sons of the gods who descended to the human world along the ladder.

And after completing the human career instructed by the gods, they followed the ladder to return to heaven. This is what is called the "Seven Kings of Heavenly Mu". Therefore, the theory of heavenly burial has been promoted more mysteriously by people.

How did the "Seven Kings of Heaven" "disappear" from the world after their death? In fact, this is not a secret at all, but the king's wizards and guards transported the king's body to the most dangerous and remote place to hide it in order to avoid the discovery of the king's body.

But there is no escape from the vision of vultures. Vultures can be large birds and generally live in high-altitude areas. In China, they are mostly seen on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. They are in groups of two or three, or they are alone as heroes. They often soar on the high mountains and ridges during the day. Their vision is comparable to that of a thousand miles away. However, they are not as pitiful as today, overwhelmed and myopic children's shoes who hold books every day, haha.

When the mysterious wizards secretly placed the king's corpse in the remote mountains, perhaps because of the right time, place, and people, a group of sudden angel vultures actually pecked the king's corpse without leaving any room for nothing.

The sacred mission of transporting the king's corpse back to heaven was finally completed by the vulture. From then on, the vulture became another magical "god" with magical functions that could bring the king's corpse back to heaven.

Moreover, the sky burial is a special way of Buddhist charity. It is the deceased who voluntarily dedicates his last thing—the dead*—to the tangible vultures on the sky burial platform, and those invisible gods.

The great Tibetans have always admired vultures very much and called them "divine birds" and were strictly prohibited from hunting. During the sky burial, people achieved great liberation with vultures and achieved sublimation of their souls.

At the same time, giving useless corpses to vultures will reduce the damage and give more good chances to survive.

Therefore, using your useless corpse to protect useful little lives is regarded as a good deed with immeasurable merits in the Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.

Moreover, in the sky burial, the Tibetans specifically express the "compassion" and "emptiness" concepts of Tibetan Buddhism.

Therefore, although the sky burial originated in India, it incorporates the Tibetan people's own ideas and methods in the Tibetan area, becoming a funeral custom with local characteristics.

In addition, the choice of the sky burial platform is different. The Tibetan selection of the sky burial platform was carefully selected by the Tantric masters based on their wise ability and Feng Shui. The barbaric "corpse abandonment method" in ancient times was random, just a way to deal with corpses, a bit like taking out garbage at will today.

The sacred sky burial is called "Du Chui O'Jie" in Tibetan! It means "sending corpses to the burial ground", also called "Chado" and bird burial. When people die and chant the menstruation period expires, the body will be sent to the sky burial ground.

Most of the sky burial sites are on the mountainside not far from the temple, and these mountainsides are quite famous. Some sky burial sites have a large and flat rock, while others are just a pile of stones. There are usually monks who specialize in sky burial, called Sky burial masters.

The prayer flags around the Tianmeng Platform are rolled around, fluttering in the wind, holding the mysterious Tianmeng Platform in the middle. The Tianmeng Master is guarding the body, he will raise a conch and blew the mountain sounds towards the sky, and then ignite cypress or mulberry smoke, shake the bell, and start to recite the sutra of salvation for the deceased.

As the thick smoke of cypress trees rises into the air, the eagles hovering in the sky in the distance will fall to a short distance from the Sky Burial Platform, grinding their sharp mouths. Then more eagles are covered with overwhelming eagles, further falling around the Sky Burial Platform.
Chapter completed!