832-346505 - Skull skulls paint ossuary charnel house Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, upper Austria, Austria

832-346516 - Skull skulls paint ossuary charnel house Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, upper Austria, Austria

832-346538 - Painted skulls in the ossuary of Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria, Austria

832-346521 - Painted skulls in the ossuary of Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria, Austria

832-346540 - Painted skulls in the ossuary of Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria, Austria

832-346514 - Skull skulls paint ossuary charnel house Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, upper Austria, Austria

832-346539 - Painted skulls in the ossuary of Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria, Austria

832-321724 - Charnel house at the historic under church, Benedictine convent Altenburg near Horn, Lower Austria

832-310197 - Ossuary or charnel house, St. Michael's Church, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

832-304858 - Exterior, Doppelkarner Ossuary (front) and Church in Pottenstein, Triestingtal (Triesting Valley), Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

832-304855 - Exterior, Doppelkarner Ossuary, Pottenstein, Triestingtal (Triesting Valley), Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

832-304857 - Part of the church and castle complex showing the cemetery and parish church in Neuhaus, Triestingtal (Triesting Valley), Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

832-283490 - Cupola with gotic frescos in the charnel house in Hartberg Styria Austria

832-228736 - Skulls in the ossuary, Karner St. Michaelskapelle St. Michael Cchapel, Hallstatt, Salzkammergut region, Upper Austria, Austria, Europe

832-228735 - Skulls in the ossuary, Karner St. Michaelskapelle St. Michael Cchapel, Hallstatt, Salzkammergut region, Upper Austria, Austria, Europe

817-443442 - Salvador de Bahia, Bahia, Brazil, charnel house at Igreja da Ordem Terceira Secular de Sao Francisco da Bahia

817-443444 - Salvador de Bahia, Bahia, Brazil, skull and bones on relief in the charnel house of the Igreja da Ordem Terceira Secular de Sao Francisco da Bahia

832-198588 - Visitors in the charnel, bones chapel Capela dos Ossos in the Franciscan monastery, Evora, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Alentejo, Portugal, Europe

832-156031 - Ossuary, skulls and bones of the explosion victims, Arkadi Monastery, Moni Arkadi, National Monument, Crete, Greece, Europe

832-155981 - Martyrs' skulls and bones, ossuary, former windmill, Arkadi Monastery, Moni Arkadi, National Monument, Crete, Greece, Europe

1196-29 - Nepal. Sonam & boom praying at charnel grounds. Humla. Vajrayana is tantric mahasiddha, lives fearlessly in terrifying places like remote jungles charnel grounds. nyingma lamas perform ritual at cremation grounds. lama rattles damaru, a small ritual drum to have origins in - shamanism. damaru, used as a tantric device to summon gods ward evil spirits, once made from human skull bones dried human skin as a reminder of impermanence of body. other lama, boom blows a kangling, a human thigh-bone horn. kangling is used in exorcism is capable of gods demons. Traditionally, best bones a kangling come from brahmans, particularly sixteen-year- brahman girls-or from tigers

1196-182 - Vultures, drigung. bodies what we most attached to, says of monks. Thats offering ones body carries greatest merit. believe that should benefit other beings at every stage of ones life. After completion of powa ceremony, corpse is traditionally offered to great vultures lammergeiers that frequent charnel grounds. Vultures descend on flayed corpse. Offering bodies to birds is same as reciting mantras. It brings merit benefit to dead person as well as to family friends bring here. While cutting up corpse i to keep a pure compassionate mind. would feel if someone felt cutting up your body. -tomdenla. Tibet

817-383132 - Charnel of Capela dos Ossos or bones chapel, in the Franciscan monastery Evora, town delcarated World Heritage by UNESCO Coimbra District Alentejo Portugal

817-383131 - Charnel of Capela dos Ossos or bones chapel, in the Franciscan monastery Evora, town delcarated World Heritage by UNESCO Coimbra District Alentejo Portugal

817-383133 - Charnel of Capela dos Ossos or bones chapel, in the Franciscan monastery Evora, town delcarated World Heritage by UNESCO Coimbra District Alentejo Portugal

834-7122 - Skulls in the Charnel House, Chapel of St. Michael Church, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Austria, Europe

834-7121 - Skulls in the Charnel House, Chapel of St. Michael Church, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Austria, Europe

817-277757 - Germany, Nabburg. Germany, Nabburg, Naab, nature reserve Upper Palatinate Forest, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, D-Nabburg-Perschen, parish church Saint Peter and Paul, basilica, fortified church, catholic church, Late Romanesque style, left before the cemetery chapel as ossuary and charnel house, storks nest on a church tower

817-277758 - D-Nabburg, Naab, nature reserve Upper Palatinate Forest, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, D-Nabburg-Perschen, parish church Saint Peter and Paul, basilica, fortified church, catholic church, Late Romanesque style, left before the cemetery chapel as ossuary and charnel house

817-232699 - Crosses marking the graves of French soldiers in the military cemetery at the Ossuaire de Douaumont near Verdun in France

110-9018 - Aitre Saint Maclou, a 16th century charnel house, typical of the half timbered houses in the city of Rouen, Haute Normandie, France, Europe