Editing Dissection (section)

===Tibet===

{{See also |Tree of physiology}}

[[Tibetan medicine]] developed a rather sophisticated knowledge of [[anatomy]], acquired from long-standing experience with human dissection. [[Tibet]]ans had adopted the practice of [[sky burial]] because of the country's hard ground, frozen for most of the year, and the lack of wood for [[cremation]]. A sky burial begins with a ritual dissection of the deceased, and is followed by the feeding of the parts to [[vulture]]s on the hill tops. Over time, Tibetan [[anatomical]] knowledge found its way into [[Ayurveda]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wujastyk |first1=Dominik |title=The Roots of Ayurveda |date=2001 |publisher=Penguin Classics}}</ref> and to a lesser extent into [[Chinese medicine]].<ref>{{cite book |title=His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Oral Biography |author1=Strober, Deborah Hart |author2=Strober, Gerald S. |date=2005 |page=[https://archive.org/details/hisholinesstheda0000unse/page/14 14] |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0471680017 |url=https://archive.org/details/hisholinesstheda0000unse/page/14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Tao and Dharma: Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda |author=Svoboda, Robert E. |date=1996 |page=89}}</ref>