Article discusses the intricate details and the founding principles of Buddhist death rituals. Includes some useful foreign vocabulary.

Western Siberian people move coffins with a horse-drawn sledge and put an axe in the head of the coffin to keep away evil spirits.

Social analysis compares Hmong cultures in Australia and Laos. Details the roles of fables, music, and community in funeral rites.

Author analyzes the trends of dealing with dead bodies in various cultures. Covers ancestor worship, Christianity, and Communism.

Gives a detailed account of the services surrounding the death of Somdej Ya, the Thai Princess Mother. See the shrine and procession route.

Profile of Japanese rituals discusses their Buddhist themes. With details about the ceremony, the remains, and the obon week.

Follow the thread of intellectual discussions about erotic displays at contemporary funeral rites. Archive of emails is from 1995 conversations.

University of Virginia provides illustrations, prayers and passages from this Tibetan scripture, as shown at the school's 1998 library exhibit.

Paragraph paints a graphic picture of the Tibetan ritual to invite vultures to feed on corpses. With role of the tomden, the master of ceremony.

Cultural description explains the importance of lineage. Also delineates the processes of the funeral ceremony and the prayer ceremony.