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This photo taken on April 5, 2013 shows Eurasian Griffon vultures circling over Chinese tourists as Tibetan Buddhist monks (not pictured) prepare dead bodies for a sky burial in Seda, in the western region of China's Sichuan province. Sky burial is a funerary practice in China's Tibetan regions where the dead are laid out in a high flat place and ritually cut up, usually by a monk and rogyapas (body-breakers) and then fed to birds of prey, most commonly the Eurasian Griffon vulture. Sky burial dates back thousands of years and probably started because above the treeline wood is too scarce for cremation and the ground too hard for burial. The practice was banned in China in the 1960's but was allowed again in the 1980's when China started to reform after the Mao Zedong era. AFP PHOTO / Peter PARKS
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Seda, Sichuan, CHINA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Peter PARKS |
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18 Aprilie 2013 |
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