The dead?

[erdene]

What did noamds do with their dead? Is open burial a Buddhist tradition?

I know chieftans and khans were buried...but the common herder??? what happened to him???

Digging and burying seems like to much of an effort for the common folk...

[Temüjin]

from what i know open burial but i don't think this is a Buddhist tradition.

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

Every people had it's own different type. Some buried their dead (the Asian Huns [Xiongnu], European Huns, Oghuz, Qypchaqs, Mongols, etc), some burned (Blue Turks [Gök Türks], Qyrghyz) and some left in the open (Gaoche, Tiele).

[Temüjin]

those who buried, does that also include commoners or just nobles (Kurgans)?

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

It also includes commoners, but they were probably too small so that no commoner tomb has been found until now, at least as far as I know.

[Bor Chono]

My grandfather was left in open.(as he asked)
-He asked him to leave in open that the messenger of Death Lord, ERLIG take him to sky.

My mother`s side grandfather was buried.(he never spoke of death).

Common Mongols didn`t buried their dead. Grave yards that surround UB is mostly because of Russian infuence.-I think.

[snafu]

Yeah, the main methods seem to have been burial, burning, or just leaving the body for animals, usually in a high, remote place. Some forest tribes would hang their dead in trees.

[Subu'atai]

Feed the wildlife that can benefit from our corpses! ;D
Why feed those maggots? Screw burial! lol

[snafu]

I think in some parts of Tibet they still do that. The bodies are smashed up and left out in the open for vultures.

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

Yes, I even saw a photo of it.

I prefer cremation because it's fast ;D