Tibetan most mysterious funeral: Tree Burial.

People who have been to the Tibetan areas, most of them know of Celestial burial. With luck, you can hear the echo of the chanting, see the vulture's madness, smell the rotting flesh... However, ordinary burial and cremation are common in Tibetan areas. Water cremation is more common in Anduo Tibetan Area,The tower burial is used for lamas and monks.

Only the Tree Burial -- the most mysterious, the most difficult to find, and the most fascinating -- are the Zhuolong  valley, which lies at the foot of the mode-off road, and is said to be the territory of the Tibetan buddhist goddess "Dorje Pamo ".  

Starting from the mountain village of Marnyi Stone pile, along the ditch and natural stone paved road, seven kilometers on foot, you can see eight successive a Lama Tower and numerous prayer flags spread across the mountain forest. some roadside stone engraved with the scriptures, appear to be desolate and mystery... Behind the lama pagoda, there is a family that looks like a temple, and it is said to be a warden, and the local people call these humble houses the zhuo long temple. And then, after walking about half a kilometer back from the Zhuolong temple, it reached the "Tree Burial ground".

Is not what person all can tree burial, was buried here are all less than one under the age of the baby, because the baby is not in this world do anything evil or good, hence this qualification. Richer people will be embalmed in small coffins or wooden boxes, and the poor may be wrapped in a piece of cloth. It is rumored that the tree burial here originated more than 300 years ago and is the only one in the world. The way to bury them is to hope that these children will grow up like a tree after samsara.

About 500 children were buried here, and more than 20 living buddhas were buried. The Tibetan information center's information on the tree burial, only two sentences - tree burials "popular in Tibet Nyingchi, mostly used in the abortive children. Wash the body with salt water, and put it in a wooden box, bucket or bamboo basket, and then go to the mountains to choose a tree to hang up to prevent any more misfortune in the family.

Creeps through the woods, found that hits the trees are tied with wooden cases or laundry list or packages, find some cloth have hair black rot and fall to the ground, found that the baby's hair nail is a transparent package is hung and I keep high branch.

But because this is a place where "tree burial" is less than a year old and eminent monks for burial, it is destined to be a holy place.