英语词汇“sky burial”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sky burial n. (esp. in Tibetan Buddhism and Zoroastrianism) a funerary ritual in which a corpse is placed on a mountain top to decompose, or to be eaten by vultures or other birds. [Apparently originally (with reference to the Tibetan custom) after Chinese tiānzàng (1907 or earlier; < tiān sky, heaven (see tian n.¹) + zàng burial; compare also niǎozàng , lit. ‘bird burial’ (already in Middle Chinese)); uses of the English expression with reference to customs in other cultures appear to be transferred uses (within English).

Compare (with reference to the Tibetan custom) French enterrement céleste (1836 or earlier), funérailles célestes (1940 in a translation from Chinese, or earlier), German Himmelsbestattung (1891 or earlier, rare); compare the more common and general Luftbestattung , lit. ‘air burial’, denoting any funerary ritual in which the body is raised or its ashes are scattered above the ground (1859 or earlier).

The Tibetan word for the custom is bya gtor ( < bya bird + gtor to scatter: see torma n.).]

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1973 China Q. No. 54 329 Certain semi-religious traditions are carried on such as the practice of sky-burial, i.e. the feeding of the dead body to birds.

1991 A. Shoumatoff in Vanity Fair May 76/1 Sky burial is rooted in the Buddhist belief that the body is nothing more than a temporary housing and, once vacated, has no further importance.

1999 M. Jay Blue Tide iii. 59 They presided over sacrifices, and the traditional ‘sky burials’ still practised by Zoroastrians.

2007 P. DePaolo Beijing Games iv. 34 Lili remembered reading that Tibetans and native American Indian tribes had also used sky burials in the mountains of China, and in the high mesas of the southwest United States.

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释义	> as lemmas sky burial sky burial n. (esp. in Tibetan Buddhism and Zoroastrianism) a funerary ritual in which a corpse is placed on a mountain top to decompose, or to be eaten by vultures or other birds. [Apparently originally (with reference to the Tibetan custom) after Chinese tiānzàng (1907 or earlier; < tiān sky, heaven (see tian n.¹) + zàng burial; compare also niǎozàng , lit. ‘bird burial’ (already in Middle Chinese)); uses of the English expression with reference to customs in other cultures appear to be transferred uses (within English). Compare (with reference to the Tibetan custom) French enterrement céleste (1836 or earlier), funérailles célestes (1940 in a translation from Chinese, or earlier), German Himmelsbestattung (1891 or earlier, rare); compare the more common and general Luftbestattung , lit. ‘air burial’, denoting any funerary ritual in which the body is raised or its ashes are scattered above the ground (1859 or earlier). The Tibetan word for the custom is bya gtor ( < bya bird + gtor to scatter: see torma n.).] ΚΠ 1973 China Q. No. 54 329 Certain semi-religious traditions are carried on such as the practice of sky-burial, i.e. the feeding of the dead body to birds. 1991 A. Shoumatoff in Vanity Fair May 76/1 Sky burial is rooted in the Buddhist belief that the body is nothing more than a temporary housing and, once vacated, has no further importance. 1999 M. Jay Blue Tide iii. 59 They presided over sacrifices, and the traditional ‘sky burials’ still practised by Zoroastrians. 2007 P. DePaolo Beijing Games iv. 34 Lili remembered reading that Tibetans and native American Indian tribes had also used sky burials in the mountains of China, and in the high mesas of the southwest United States. extracted from skyn.¹ < as lemmas
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