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For a few, there is one final but essential task to perform. Buddhists believe in the concept of rebirth, and at Kailash the journey from one life to the next is marked with an ancient but outlandish ritual. |
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Tibetans believe there' s no need to keep or bury the bodies of their dead, since a departed life will already have kindled a new one elsewhere. |
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The word for burial in Tibetan means " giving offerings to the birds", an act of generosity in line with the concept of compassion for all beings. |
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By doing good deeds, Buddhists believe that they can contribute to the process of enlightenment. So a sky burial at Kailash contributes to a brighter future. There may be legends of mythical mountains and rivers that form the " axis of the world". But the Tibetan plateau itself, with its mountains, glaciers, and rivers, and as the engine that drives the monsoon, lays fair claim to being the real axis of the world. Apart from feeding the rivers of India and Pakistan, Tibet' s glaciers are the source of even more great rivers. |
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Vietnam' s Mekong, Burma' s Salween and the Yangtze and the Yellow, both of which flow into China. |
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duì yī xiē rén lái shuō, zhè lǐ zhǐ yǒu yí gè zhòng yào de zhōng jí mù biāo. fó jiào tú xiāng xìn yǒu lún huí, rèn wéi zài kǎ yī lā shén shān, cóng jīn shēng dào lái shì de lù shàng, dōu yǒu gǔ dài shén mì yí shì de yìn jī. xī zàng rén rèn wéi méi yǒu bì yào bǎo cún huò mái zàng tā men de shī tǐ, yīn wèi sǐ wáng de rén yǐ jīng zài qí tā dì fāng huò dé le xīn shēng. zàng yǔ zhōng de mái zàng de yì sī shì" shī shě wèi niǎo, zhè zhǒng xíng wéi hé tā men lián mǐn yī qiè shēng líng de guān niàn shì yī zhì. fó jiào tú xiāng xìn xíng shàn yǒu yì yú tā men de jiào huà, suǒ yǐ zài kǎ yī lā shén tiān zàng néng huò dé gèng hǎo de wèi lái. huò xǔ shì jiè wū jǐ yóu guān yú shān de shén huà hé hé liú gòu chéng. dàn shì qīng zàng gāo yuán běn shēn, hái yǒu tā de shān luán bīng chuān hé liú. zuò wéi jì fēng de tuī dòng zhě, shì míng fù qí shí de shì jiè wū jǐ. chú le shì yìn dù hé bā jī sī tǎn de yuán tóu, xī zàng de bīng chuān hái shì gèng duō zhǔ yào hé liú de yuán tóu. yuè nán de méi gōng hé, miǎn diàn de nù jiāng yǎ lǔ cáng bù jiāng hé huáng hé, dōu liú jīng zhōng guó. |