1350-1636 - Person who recovers wood used in cremation, which has not burned completely, in Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, on the banks of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
832-373556 - Traditional funeral, people standing around a body on a pyre, while an untouchable priest of the lowest caste spreads wet reed over the body, Pashupatinath, Nepal, Asia
832-239509 - The Boeoeg, a doll symbolizing winter, is burned at the Sechselaeuten, traditional festival; the various guilds stand and ride around the fire, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe
832-239508 - The Boeoeg, a doll symbolizing winter, is burned at the Sechselaeuten, traditional festival; the various guilds stand and ride around the fire, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe
1161-4355 - Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India
1161-4356 - Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India
911-9194 - Boy recycling wood after a cremation at the Pashupatinath Temple, a Hindu temple of Lord Shiva on the banks of the Bagmati River, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
911-9193 - A cremation at the Pashupatinath Temple, a Hindu temple of Lord Shiva on the banks of the Bagmati River, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
911-9203 - Boys panning in the Bagmati River for gold from teeth and jewellery, after the remains of funeral pyres are tipped into the river, Pashupatinath Temple, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
911-9192 - Boys panning in the Bagmati River for gold from teeth and jewellery, after the remains of funeral pyres are tipped into the river, Pashupatinath Temple, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
911-9191 - A cremation at the Pashupatinath Temple, a Hindu temple of Lord Shiva on the banks of the Bagmati River, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
911-9208 - A cremation at the Pashupatinath Temple, a Hindu temple of Lord Shiva on the banks of the Bagmati River, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
1196-107 - Fire ritual at chiwang monastery during the mani rimdu festival. these monks circumambulate the pyre after its ignition. one holds a long book wrapped in a felicitous scarf. the purifying fire takes the offering and raises them towards the sky in smoke. the circumambulatory ritual also recalls the way disciples showed respect for the buddhas body. solu khumbu, nepal
238-5354 - Illustration of suttee, suicide of an Indian wife on her husband's funeral pyre, illustration from the Itinerario of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, the 16th century Dutch traveller, India, Asia
755-37 - Smoke from funeral pyres on the ghats on the left drifts across the bridge over the river Bagmati at Nepal's holiest Hindu pilgrimage site, Pashupatinath, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia