Litang
Litang
2020They believe bodies become meaningless after death, like clothes that are discarded when worn out. The dead will reincarnate, having their bodies fed to vultures is to be their last act of almsgiving. No memorials or tombs are prepared, they live to expend, not to cumulate. A nomadic people in a political world, their traditions became exotic spectacles; and yet their way of life will outlive the corpulent empires and their ceaseless conflicts, some 10,000ft beneath the tents.