sky burial

1. Later because of the Tibentan Buddhism spread in the southeast Asia, Sky burial lost its cultural foundations, and disappeared gradually.
   后来由于小乘佛教在东南亚的传播，鸟葬失去了其存在的文化根基，遂逐渐消亡。

noun

1. a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures